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Author: Jessica Parr

Ownership and Access: The Ebony and Jet Magazines Archive

September 6, 2019August 30, 2019 Jessica Parr archives, black intellectual history, MEDIA, publishing, race

In early July, the imminent auction of the Ebony/Jet archives made the news. Priceless collections of photographs and other documents

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Fugitive Slaves and the Quest for Freedom

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Jessica Parr fugitivity, law, Resistance, slavery

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved

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"Husbands, wives, and families sold indiscriminately to different purchasers, are violently separated; probably never to meet again." 1853. New York Public Library.

Slavery, Family Separation, and the Ransom Case of John Weems

September 11, 2018September 16, 2018 Jessica Parr archives, race, slave trade, slavery

During the nineteenth century, several state laws prohibited, or restricted the ability of African Americans to testify against white people.

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Black Resistance to Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

July 5, 2018July 9, 2018 Jessica Parr Black women, law, New York, segregation

In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its

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"Cruelties of slavery." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery

March 5, 2018March 11, 2018 Jessica Parr #MasterlessMen, capitalism, Politics, racism, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians

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