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Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence

In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the

The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. We Are Not Slaves:

One of the enduring ironies of the institution of slavery is that it was wrapped up in the law. While