The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy
The Denmark Vesey conspiracy transformed how enslavers viewed free and unfree men who labored in the cities and countryside of
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Author: Karen Cook Bell
Enslaved Revolutionary Women: An Author Interview with Karen Cook-Bell
On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in
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Black Women and American Freedom in Revolutionary America
What is the price of freedom? Is it worth the cost if failure means a return to slavery or death?
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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery
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Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War
On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three
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