Yesenia Barragan
Yesenia Barragan is a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in the nineteenth-century Americas and the African diaspora. She is the author of Freedom’s Captives, which won the Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association and several other awards, and is currently an associate professor of history at Rutgers University.
Books by Yesenia Barragan
In Latin America You Could Be Free: An African American History
Basic Books, 2026