Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America
In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple
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Book Review
Reassessing African-European Encounters
Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy
As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.
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Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South
The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where
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Black Women and the Racialization of Infanticide
“Knowledge of the human body constituted a form of property as important – or even more important than – the
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