“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law
This article was originally published on August 25, 2015. In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris,
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Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South
The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where
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The Disappearance of Eve and Sall: Escaping Slavery in North Carolina
*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Between 1829
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Recovering the Lives of City Women
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is
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Fugitive Slaves and the Quest for Freedom
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved
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