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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

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” During the Antebellum period,

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” The work of enslaved

Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force.

In the late 1820s, an industrious Black woman from Mississippi was living in Coahuila as a free woman and a