Antwain K. Hunter
Historian of slavery and freedom focused on the Carolinas and author of A Precarious Balance, which examines firearms, race, and community in North Carolina from 1715–1865; currently an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 50min
Antwain K. Hunter, "A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865" (UNC Press, 2025)
Antwain K. Hunter, historian of slavery and freedom in the Carolinas and author of A Precarious Balance. He traces how free and enslaved Black North Carolinians accessed and used firearms for hunting, protection, labor, and resistance. The conversation highlights county-level politics, visual sources of everyday armed life, tensions between practical use and deadly risk, and wartime complications for armed labor.
Mar 16, 2026 • 50min
Antwain K. Hunter, "A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865" (UNC Press, 2025)
Antwain K. Hunter, historian of slavery and freedom in the Carolinas and author of A Precarious Balance, explores how free and enslaved Black North Carolinians accessed and used firearms from 1715–1865. He traces everyday armed life—from hunting and labor to defense and resistance. He also examines laws, petitions, imagery, and how wartime pressures reshaped armed labor and rights.
