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The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists

In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. For many people today,

Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an

Chattel enslavement was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, shortly after the Dutch first settled