Enslaved People in Eighteenth-century Britain: An Interview with Nelson Mundell
In today’s post, Keisha N. Blain, Senior Editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Nelson Mundell about the new online database, Runaway Slaves
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Slave revolts
‘The Dawn of Detroit’: An Interview with Historian Tiya Miles
In today’s post, Alaina E. Roberts, the Dietrich Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of
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Writing on Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the
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Pushing the Dual Emancipation Thesis Beyond its Troublesome Origins
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Toward the end of her valuable reinterpretation of southern slave
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Cosmic Literacies and Black Fugitivity
Star-gazing as a practice of fugitivity has a long history for Black Americans. According to folklore, spirituals like “Foller de
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