White has been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship, the Carter G. Woodson Medallion for excellence in African American history, and has also received an Honorary Doctorate from her undergraduate alma mater, Binghamton University.
This book was among the first monographs on the history of African American women, and which was responsible for the creation of the Library of Congress subject category “Woman Slaves” in the same year.
The papers presented at this conference are published in the Winter, 2007 (Volume 92(1)) Journal of African American Studies.
One of the findings was that Sojourner Truth, the noted abolitionist and feminist, was owned by the family of the first president of Rutgers.
Researchers also unearthed a document that revealed that an enslaved man named Will was among those who built the first building at Rutgers.