The Relevance of 1619 in Black Family Oral History
This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” The 400th Commemoration
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On War and U.S. Slavery: Enslaved Black Women’s Experiences
The experiences of enslaved women and girls in the wars of the United States has garnered increased scholarly attention, most
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Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War
Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during
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Marriage and Slavery in Colonial Venezuela
On September 2, the National Academy of History and the Venezuela History Network in Caracas announced the transcription and digitization
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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.
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