Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence
In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the
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Mexican Freedom, American Slavery
In the late 1820s, an industrious Black woman from Mississippi was living in Coahuila as a free woman and a
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Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America
In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple
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Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey
Chattel enslavement was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, shortly after the Dutch first settled
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An Environmental History of Slavery: An Interview with David Silkenat
In today’s post, Adam X. McNeil, a regular contributor of Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. David Silkenat on his new book,
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