A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery
In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery
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Slavery
Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men
In Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men, historian Thomas Foster examines how the conditions of slavery gave rise to
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Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution
On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she
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Diasporic Salutations and the West African Origins of the ‘Dap’
Until recently, the salutations of Black America were an anomaly to mainstream white Americans. The verbal expressions, hand gestures, and
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Unilever’s Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery
In a typical US advertisement for Magnum ice cream, a young, attractive white woman devours an ice-cream treat coated in chocolate. The
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