Karen Cook Bell - AAIHS

Black Women’s Fugitivity in Colonial America

Lucia, a fourteen-year-old young girl transported to the Georgia Lowcountry during the 1760s, brought with her a deft understanding of

Historian John Dower has noted that “apart from the genocide of the Jews, racism remains one of the great neglected

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a

Martin Luther King Jr. approached history with a reverent understanding of the complex relationship between the secular and the sacred.

Delia Garlic, a former slave in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana knew the worst of slavery, including violent punishment and forced