The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy
The Denmark Vesey conspiracy transformed how enslavers viewed free and unfree men who labored in the cities and countryside of
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Resistance
Ecologies of Resistance: The Underground Railroad Ethnobotany Project
“Gone are the century-old definitions of the Underground Railroad dominated by images of shivering, frightened fugitive slaves. Fading away are
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Northern Black People’s Freedom Struggle in the Nineteenth Century
During the mid-nineteenth-century, Black people collectively fought for racial equality and social justice within the U.S. The scholarship of historians,
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A Review of 2021 Books in Black Intellectual History
The following list is a sampling of books on African American history that were released during 2021. All of them
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Confederate Memorials on Trial
Judge Timothy Walmsley’s recent ruling that the Confederate flag on defendant Travis McMichael’s truck is admissible in Ahmaud Arbery’s murder
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