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Mexican Freedom, American Slavery

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

What is the historical relationship between African Americans and the state militia? Today, some may believe the militia to be

Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden, an associate professor of history,

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Dedicated during the national reckoning of