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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
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Historicizing Freedom and Black Abolitionism
More than a year ago, I wrote about the idea of hope relative to northern black activism during the American
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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence, Part 4
This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first
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David Walker and the Problem of American Consensus
There are many different ways to teach the historical development of African American political history. One way is in the
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