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The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology

In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective

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

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

In a treatise published in 1681, Anglican clergyman Morgan Godwyn, who had ministered to parishes in Virginia and Barbados, recounted