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How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made

John Custis IV was in the upper crust of colonial Virginia. The planter and politician turned sixty in 1738, and

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” During the Antebellum period,

This article was originally published on August 25, 2015. In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris,

Chattel enslavement was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, shortly after the Dutch first settled

On November 21, 1725, African slave Louis Congo was freed and made a salaried public executioner in Louisiana by the