Slavery - AAIHS

Is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Stamped from the Beginning?

This post was inspired by Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s insightful AAIHS critique of Professor Joy DeGruy’s equally insightful book Post

Last weekend I saw a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ play An Octoroon, which is a reimagining of Dion Boucicault’s The

For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,

If you’ve never seen a historian cry, you’re probably hanging out with the wrong historians. The day you see multiple

What would a memorial to slavery look like? What story would it tell? What function would we want it to