Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective
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Antebellum
How Enslaved People Found A Pathway to Self-discovery
In 1837, Charles Ball published a memoir recounting his experience as one enslaved for forty years in the states of
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Runaway Slaves To Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
In May 2020, the New York Times published a story about the discovery of three skulls unearthed from a grave
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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the
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Women and Emancipation: An Interview with Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri Snyder
In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder on their
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