Reconstruction - AAIHS - Page 11

A Mind to Stay: A New Book on Black Landowners

February 18, 2017February 20, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black, Deep South, slavery, South

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Read more

Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence, Part 4

February 12, 2017February 16, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt emancipation, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, white supremacy

This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

Read more

Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 3

January 11, 2017January 15, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt criminal justice system, South, violence

This essay is Part Three of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

Read more

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead

January 11, 2017January 20, 2018 Lavelle Porter #CharlestonSyllabus, 2016 Presidential Election, Charleston, W.E.B. Du Bois

Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME

Read more

Slavery, the 13th Amendment, and Mass Incarceration: A Response to Patrick Rael

December 12, 2016December 13, 2016 Dennis R. Childs 13th Amendment, convict leasing

This post is a rebuttal to Patrick Rael’s “Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration.” Dear Professor

Read more