Free People of Color - AAIHS

Bound in Wedlock: A New Book on Slave and Free Marriage in the 19th Century

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

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead

From the eighteenth century to our own time, a range of African Americans have traveled “back” to Africa in hopes

There are many different ways to teach the historical development of African American political history. One way is in the

This month, I interviewed Aisha Finch about her new book, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies