Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles is the recipient of a 2011 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” and is an award-winning historian and former chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan. The author of The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits, she lives in Ann Arbor.

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The New Press Wins Two American Book Awards

Two New Press titles, The Dawn of Detroit by

Books by Tiya Miles

The Dawn of Detroit
A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

Tiya Miles