Vanessa M. Holden

Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa M. Holden Activism, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, Resistance

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

September 19, 2018September 25, 2018 Vanessa M. Holden Marriage, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slavery, white supremacy

A recent NPR article entitled “Same-Sex-Marriage Flashpoint: Alabama Considers Quitting The Marriage Business” ⁠included a photo of two African American

Slavery and America’s Legacy of Family Separation

July 25, 2018July 31, 2018 Vanessa M. Holden Immigration, slavery

In early May 2018 news broke that federal officials had lost track of nearly 1,500 children. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced

Reading the Language of Violence in the Middle Passage

March 10, 2017July 20, 2018 Vanessa M. Holden #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade, violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea “The dead are not remembered in