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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery

In a treatise published in 1681, Anglican clergyman Morgan Godwyn, who had ministered to parishes in Virginia and Barbados, recounted

For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

The history of Black peoples in Canada prior to the mid-nineteenth century is a complex and transnational story. In popular