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Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South

Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South

The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where …
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Black Women and the Racialization of Infanticide

Black Women and the Racialization of Infanticide

“Knowledge of the human body constituted a form of property as important – or even more important than – the …
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The White Press & Jim Crow

The White Press & Jim Crow

Within a frame of a two competing ideas of the United States “one liberal, the other illiberal,” Journalism and Jim Crow …
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