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Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender

“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

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

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