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Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between

“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s

I recently returned from a storytelling school in a small coastal town on the North Channel of Northern Ireland. I

This is an excerpt from the preface of Andrew T. Fede’s Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the