British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans
“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in
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Economics
Martin Luther King Jr. and Workers’ Rights in Baltimore
*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. In 1968, municipal sanitation workers
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The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies
The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented
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Antebellum Law and the Southern Justice System
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. I must confess from the outset that I never had
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In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in
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