Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names
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Free the Beaches: A New Book on the Fight for Racial Equality in Connecticut
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism
*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
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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”
On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history
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Frederick Douglass, Real Estate Developer
Few people passing through Baltimore’s Fell’s Point neighborhood ever step onto the 500 block of South Dallas Street. The narrow
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