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“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law

January 25, 2024January 21, 2024 Christopher Bonner 19c, fugitivity, Resistance, slave law, slavery

This article was originally published on August 25, 2015. In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris,

Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia

May 23, 2023May 19, 2023 Karen Cook Bell race, slavery

Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced

Black Women’s Resistance in Slave Rebellions

May 11, 2023May 9, 2023 Asia Thomas Uzomba Black women, Nat Turner, Slave Rebellion, slavery, Southampton Rebellion

Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden, an associate professor of history,

The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Frank Kalisik race, slavery

In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in

Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America

May 4, 2023May 3, 2023 Christopher D. E. Willoughby antebellum, book review, disability, Gender, slavery

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple