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African American Women on the American Railroad

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad by Miriam Thaggert examines African American women’s engagement with the railroad

Patricia de Santana Pinho’s Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil is a compelling ethnography that explores the journeys

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

In 1849, an unnamed Missouri slave owner took a male slave to California to search for gold. Two years later,

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African