Towards Usable Histories of the Black Commons
Since the 1980s, policymakers have extended the market logics of risk and profit to encompass all the basic necessities for
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Plantations
A Mind to Stay: A New Book on Black Landowners
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: A New Book on the Value of the Enslaved
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Ghosts of Slavery’s Christmas
James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and
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Gender, Slavery, and the Archive in Cuba: An Interview with Aisha Finch
This month, I interviewed Aisha Finch about her new book, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies
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