Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians
Read more*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians
Read moreEarlier this year, NBC journalist Chuck Todd pressed the Counselor to the US President, Kellyanne Conway, to explain spurious claims made
Read moreAs monuments to white supremacists, slavery-defenders, and Confederate leaders continue to be torn down by politicians or by the people’s
Read moreThroughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which
Read moreIn a recent interview with Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Commission, stated, “What we do in the memorial
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