The Black Intellectual Traditions That Shaped Frederick Douglass
The United States recently marked 250 years since the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For this occasion, a
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Abolitionism
Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States
“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But
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Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence
In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the
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Maria W. Stewart and a Womanist Theological Tradition
This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.” Anticipation filled the room as attendees gathered at Franklin Hall
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Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America
In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple
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