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Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”

In today’s post, Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, interviews Marlene L. Daut on her new book Baron

In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Depictions of slavery in the United States have captivated audiences for centuries. In honor of the recent National Poetry Month