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Memory, Memorials, and History

“On this Juneteenth I’m on a tour being conducted by Jefferson Davis’s great grandson.” –@heirofElijah, June 19, 2019 The morning started

In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,

For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history? Beyond the very real physical