Book Review - AAIHS

Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South

The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where

“Knowledge of the human body constituted a form of property as important – or even more important than – the

Within a frame of a two competing ideas of the United States “one liberal, the other illiberal,” Journalism and Jim Crow

In Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery, Bruce A. Ragsdale meticulously examines Washington’s activities

Even as more scholars of color engage with the livelihoods of those not rich, white, or male, the way Black