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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 3

This essay is Part Three of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in

James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and

Two hundred years ago this week, dozens of the nation’s most powerful men met in the Davis Hotel in Washington