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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which

“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s

Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized by Britain’s ruling elites. They made their

There are many different ways to teach the historical development of African American political history. One way is in the

It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in