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Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple

Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an

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

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,