Mitchell, Mary Niall

Mary Niall Mitchell is Ethel & Herman L. Midlo Endowed Chair in New Orleans Studies, Gordon Mueller Professor of Public History, and Director of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies. She is the author of Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (NYU Press, 2008) and has published online for Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Commonplace.   Mitchell is one of five lead historians for Freedomonthemove.org, a collaborative crowdsourced database of fugitive slave advertisements housed at Cornell University.