Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence
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The Revolt That Almost Overthrew Slavery
In 1763, in a remote corner of the Atlantic world, enslaved people came closer than ever before to overthrowing slavery
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Marronage and the Great Dismal Swamp
For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a
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En tierra moribunda: más allá de la toxicidad en una comunidad Afromexicana
*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Una madrugada
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On Dying Land: the Afterlife of Toxicity in an Afromexican Community
*This post is part of our series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. A
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