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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

Tupac Shakur wrote “Dear Mama” to celebrate his mother’s strength and plea for her love. The song is an unfiltered

April 24, 2022 to April 28, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

This post is part of our online roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black Lives. Who gets to imagine and visualize Black Lives? In

The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where