How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
John Custis IV was in the upper crust of colonial Virginia. The planter and politician turned sixty in 1738, and
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Author: Calvin Schermerhorn
A History of Slavery in the United States
This is an excerpt from Calvin Schermerhorn’s Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2018). This excerpt has been reprinted
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In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in
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