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A Country of Their Own: An American Ex-Slave’s Search for Homeland in Panama

While wandering through the maze of microfilm one afternoon at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, I

As many scholars of early African American life can attest, one of the most vexing aspects of doing research is

Over the past seventy-two hours, the Internet has been abuzz over Nate Parker’s involvement in a seventeen-year-old rape case. Journalists

The following remarks were delivered in June 2016 at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting.

On June 21, 2016, I wrote a blog post entitled, “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome Is Racist Idea,” which elicited positive and