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Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey

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

The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In 1662, the Virginia legislature cast a

This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late