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Ghosts of Slavery’s Christmas

James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and

Two hundred years ago this week, dozens of the nation’s most powerful men met in the Davis Hotel in Washington

This is the second part of a two-part survey on the Electoral College, race, and slavery. This post explores the

This essay is Part Two of a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part

Although forms of systemic racism had certainly not gone away prior to Donald Trump’s election, that so many Americans voted