Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians
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Slavery
Slavery and the History of Abolition: An Interview with Manisha Sinha
In today’s post, Rebecca Brenner, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at American University, interviews Manisha Sinha on
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Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”
March 5-9, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor
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The Complicated History of Race and Mardi Gras
Another carnival season is underway. In New Orleans it can be a time of eager anticipation during the historic, festive
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Jumping the Broom and the American Cultural Divide
Many people in the 21st century became familiar with jumping the broom through the 1977 miniseries Roots in a wedding scene
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