Keri Leigh Merritt

Writing on Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the

American historians have long traced the genesis of the Black Power movement to 1966. I would argue, however, that one

This month I interviewed Adrian E. Miller about his work on soul food, culinary history, and the African American cooks

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead

This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first