Professor of History and Department Co-chair Roy Finkenbine‘s essay “Caesar (November 1774)” was published online in Freedom Seekers: Stories of Black Liberation in the American Revolutionary Era and Beyond, a growing collection of short stories of enslaved people who attempted to seize their own freedom.

Finkenbine’s essay follows an enslaved Virginian named Caesar, who took his freedom in 1774, finding sanctuary among the Shawnees and becoming a warrior in the fight of Indigenous peoples to hold on to the Ohio country.