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Black Resistance to Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”

Contrary to what some people believe, the blues is not “slave music.” Although it was cultivated by the descendants of slaves,

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

The 1830s was the high-tide of Jacksonianism, an era many historians consider the nadir of early American history. Although universal