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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 3

This essay is Part Three of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

Far too often, the South, and especially the Black South connote backwardness in the imaginations of scholars and activists alike.

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her

Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named