Black Code Studies is queer, femme, fugitive, and radical.
Black Code Studies is queer, femme, fugitive, and radical.
Black Code Studies is queer, femme, fugitive, and radical.
And we aren't going anywhere.

Jessica Marie Johnson is a writer and historian of slavery at Johns Hopkins University. She is co-editor with Mark Anthony Neal of Black Code: A Special Issue of the Black Scholar (2017) and the author of Practicing Freedom: Black Women, Intimacy, and Kinship in New Orleans Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, under contract). She tweets as @jmjafrx.