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Martin Luther King Jr. and Workers’ Rights in Baltimore

April 4, 2018April 7, 2018 Jane Berger Baltimore, capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities, Resistance

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. In 1968, municipal sanitation workers

The Politics of Poor Whiteness

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 Jeff Forret #MasterlessMen, capitalism, electoral politics, slavery, South, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Occasionally a book comes along at a timely historical moment.

In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

March 5, 2018March 11, 2018 Calvin Schermerhorn #MasterlessMen, capitalism, Deep South, Jim Crow, landownership, Marxism, Politics, Racial Capitalism, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in

"Cruelties of slavery." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery

March 5, 2018March 11, 2018 Jessica Parr #MasterlessMen, capitalism, Politics, racism, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians

Race, Religion and Radicalism: King and Du Bois

February 22, 2018March 1, 2018 Edward Carson #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. On the occasion of a dual anniversary—the year we