Colored Travelers: A New Book on Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship
This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African
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Antebellum
The Distinction Between Slavery and Race in U.S. History
The history of the Electoral College is receiving a lot of attention. Pieces like this one, which explores “the electoral
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America’s Enslaved Dead
On Sunday, November 8, 1936, Zora Neale Hurston received the exciting news: there was a zombie at the hospital in
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Slavery, Migration, and Narratives of the Black Pacific
In 1803, on a small tropical island surrounded by beautiful oceans and relentless sugar plantations, a baby was born. The
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Braveheart for Black People: A Review of Birth of a Nation
I was invited to see Nate Parker’s dramatic retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion right before it opened to the
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