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Black Women’s Resistance in Slave Rebellions

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

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

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

Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an

Chattel enslavement was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, shortly after the Dutch first settled