Free People of Color

Black Women and the Southampton Rebellion

In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat

Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the

“Depending on the ‘truth’ of the alternate versions, Liberia’s founding may be seen as a white kindness or as a

African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number