Free People of Color - AAIHS

Sex, Blood, and Belonging in the Early Republic

The following remarks were delivered in June 2016 at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting.

Think the current controversy over “black lives matter” is new? African American activists wrestled with the question almost 200 years

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her

The nearing completion and grand opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Ezekiel Price was a notary public in Boston, Massachusetts whose career spanned from the 1750s until the 1780s. He dutifully