Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas
It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in
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Month: December 2016
Ghosts of Slavery’s Christmas
James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and
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The American Colonization Society: 200 Years of the “Colonizing Trick”
Two hundred years ago this week, dozens of the nation’s most powerful men met in the Davis Hotel in Washington
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Are You An Intellectual?
On December 16, 2016, I delivered the doctoral commencement address at the University of Florida. This is an amended version
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A Compact for the Good of America? Slavery and the Three-Fifths Compromise, Part II
This is the second part of a two-part survey on the Electoral College, race, and slavery. This post explores the
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