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Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature

Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. On May 1, 1861,

On November 21, 1725, African slave Louis Congo was freed and made a salaried public executioner in Louisiana by the

The New Orleans morning daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, during the 11-year period between 1957 and 1968, failed to publish a

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery