A Dual Emancipation: How Black Freedom Benefited Poor Whites
Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead
Read moreRecently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead
Read moreIn “Countin’ the Blues,” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey sings, “Layin’ in my bed with my face turned to the wall…Tryin’ to
Read moreIn April of 1897, General Artur Oscar de Andrade Guimarães began preparing for an expedition that would carry he and
Read moreHistorically, the business of black undertaking has been framed as a male success story—focusing on narratives of lone freedmen with
Read moreThis is the fourth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison
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