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Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”

February 26, 2018March 11, 2018 AAIHS Editors #MasterlessMen, slavery

March 5-9, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor

Enslaved African Americans hoe and plow the earth and cut piles of sweet potatoes on a South Carolina plantation, circa 1862-3 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress)

Slavery, the Plantation Myth, and Alternative Facts

December 6, 2017December 14, 2017 Tyler Parry slavery, South

Earlier this year, NBC journalist Chuck Todd pressed the Counselor to the US President, Kellyanne Conway, to explain spurious claims made

"Cruelties of slavery." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender

September 19, 2017September 23, 2017 Jessica Parr Ohio, slavery

“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s

"Flogging a slave fastened to the ground." 1853. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the Atlantic World

September 16, 2017September 19, 2017 Andrew T. Fede law, Racial Violence, slave trade, slavery, violence

This is an excerpt from the preface of Andrew T. Fede’s Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the

A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago

May 22, 2017December 2, 2017 Guest Poster Chicago, slavery, University of Chicago

Julia Leakes yearned to be reunited with her family. In 1853, her two sisters showed up for sale along with