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
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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port
In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,
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Towards an Antifascist Pedagogy
On February 19th, 2019 an interracial group of socialists gathered at a local coffee shop in rural Alabama. The coffee
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Overseer Violence on Eighteenth Century Plantations
For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When
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On Richard Wright’s Hunger and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy
Richard Wright’s famous autobiography, Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (1945) was originally titled American Hunger. However, the
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