Ownership and Access: The Ebony and Jet Magazines Archive
In early July, the imminent auction of the Ebony/Jet archives made the news. Priceless collections of photographs and other documents
Read moreIn early July, the imminent auction of the Ebony/Jet archives made the news. Priceless collections of photographs and other documents
Read moreThe Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved
Read moreDuring the nineteenth century, several state laws prohibited, or restricted the ability of African Americans to testify against white people.
Read moreIn 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its
Read more*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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