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Enslaved People and Divorce in the African Diaspora

Numerous books and articles analyze the concept of “slave marriage,” but other than a few exceptional works, the historical literature

My grandfather died on Christmas Eve. I never knew him, but his legend still hangs over me. Even though I’m named

I spent my Sundays in November photographing in Clarksville—a neighborhood in Austin, Texas, which was founded by freedpeople after the

I recently returned from a storytelling school in a small coastal town on the North Channel of Northern Ireland. I

It was the summer of 1986 in Chicago, and my eleven-year-old self was engaged in an intense debate with my