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The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists

In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in

The music journalist Sidney Shaw, the leading female character in the 2002 movie Brown Sugar, opened each of her interviews

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

Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Black Perspectives’ Senior editor, Holly Pinheiro,