Why are Trump Supporters Trying to Spark another Civil War?
As outrageous new events on the campaign trail assault us every day, it is becoming easy to accept the absurdities
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Abolitionism
Dark Work: A New Book on the Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the publication of selected
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Dangerous Neighbors: A New Book on the Haitian Revolution’s Impact on Early America
This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing–announcing the publication of selected new books
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What to the Black Academic is the 4th of July?
July 4 is not normally a day that we associate with black history. The “we” here refers both to the
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Marronage and Normativity
This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Neil Roberts’s Freedom as Marronage. We began with an introduction by
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