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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port

In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,

For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history? Beyond the very real physical

Lucia, a fourteen-year-old young girl transported to the Georgia Lowcountry during the 1760s, brought with her a deft understanding of