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How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made

John Custis IV was in the upper crust of colonial Virginia. The planter and politician turned sixty in 1738, and

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” During the Antebellum period,

For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery

St. John’s Got to scrappin’, grappling With Deshae out some windows And Mt. Landing Out the others. Her pews