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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: A New Book on the Value of the Enslaved

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

This month, I interviewed Alex Borucki about his new book, From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río

Far more people probably know the importance of January 1, 1863 than they do the significance of January 1, 1808.

As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that