The Role of Violence in the Abolitionist Movement
On September 11 1851, George Ford, Nelson Ford, Noah Buley, and Joshua Hammond arrived at William and Eliza Parker’s home
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Antebellum
In Pursuit of Knowledge: A New Book about Black Women’s Educational Activism
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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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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The Spiritual Life of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth Century Black Mormon
Quincy Newell’s Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon explores the fascinating life
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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery
In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery
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