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Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops

In 1887, William J. Simmons, a United States Colored Troops (USCT) veteran turned historian, expressed his gratitude to Black

Few objects embody and communicate histories of land and labor like food. Netflix’s High on the Hog: How African American

Galveston, Texas, may best be remembered as the provenance of Juneteenth. However, in the universe of Black history, the island

Marxism, which played a role in Black Liberation ideas in the decades immediately after the Russian Revolution, and again during

*This post is part of our roundtable on Dr. Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Dr. Swan will be in conversation with Dr. Keisha