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Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Toward the end of her valuable reinterpretation of southern slave

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Occasionally a book comes along at a timely historical moment.