Karen Cook Bell

Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

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

On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three

Lucia, a fourteen-year-old young girl transported to the Georgia Lowcountry during the 1760s, brought with her a deft understanding of

Historian John Dower has noted that “apart from the genocide of the Jews, racism remains one of the great neglected

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a