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Author: Keri Leigh Merritt

Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 3

January 11, 2017January 15, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt criminal justice system, South, violence

This essay is Part Three of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

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Branding Slaves, 19 century. Source: William O. Blake, The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade (Columbus, 1857), p. 97.

Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 2

December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 Keri Leigh Merritt criminal justice system, Deep South

This essay is Part Two of a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part

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

Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies

November 17, 2016November 13, 2016 Keri Leigh Merritt Deep South

This essay is the first post in a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part

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Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South by Jeff Forret. Photo: courtesy of Jeff Forret.

Slavery and Violence in the Old South: An Interview with Jeff Forret

October 6, 2016August 15, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt archives, Gender

This month I interviewed Dr. Jeff Forret, Professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. He is the author

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Former slave Willis Winn with horn with which slaves were called.

Men without Pants: Masculinity and the Enslaved

September 11, 2016September 11, 2016 Keri Leigh Merritt Deep South, masculinity

Although nearly fifty-seven years have passed since Stanley Elkins’ provocative thesis on the effects of slavery rocked the historical community,

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