[3] The book discusses how the fluidity of sexual interracial relationships occurred during times when society and law clashed.
Rothman explores how white supremacy was rampant in Virginia while society simultaneously accepted interracial relationships such as Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
[5] The book was later published as Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson in 2012 through the University of Georgia Press.
[9] Their project, which received a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, aimed to digitize every advertisement for a runaway slave in North American newspapers.
[11] In 2019, Rothman accepted an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to conduct research for his newest book, The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America.