VanJessica Gladney

VanJessica Gladney is a first-year graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in History at the University of Pennsylvania. She serves as the Clío Co-President, Co-President of the William Fontaine Fellowship Society and the Digital Historian for the Penn & Slavery Project. Her interests involve tracing the spread of pro-slavery legislation throughout the “free” states in the mid-nineteenth-century.