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Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South

The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where

In today’s post, Adam X. McNeil, a regular contributor of Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. David Silkenat on his new book,

“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,

In Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery, Bruce A. Ragsdale meticulously examines Washington’s activities

In the summer of 1782, nearly nine months after Patriot victory at the Battle of Yorktown during the US War