From Abolitionist to Race Woman: Charlotte Forten’s Black Feminist Legacy
In today’s post, Mickell Carter, an editorial assistant at Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Jaimie D. Crumley about her
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Antebellum
Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature
Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the
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Free Blacks in Accomack County during the Antebellum Period
This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” During the Antebellum period,
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The Dichotomy of Enslaved Women’s Work in the Antebellum South
This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” The work of enslaved
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The Life of Betsey Stockton
Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force.
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