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Slavery and Emancipation in New England: A Bibliography

Over the past few months, I have been writing posts exploring pre-modern black intellectual history. They have largely focused on

This is a guest post by Jonathan Lande, winner of the 2016 Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize. This annual

This is a guest post by Daniel R. Mandell, Professor of History at Truman State University. Prof. Mandell recently received

“Change for a $20” read news blurbs on Wednesday, with the announcement that Harriet Tubman will appear on U.S. currency.

In the 1670s, an enslaved woman named Hannah appeared before Boston’s criminal court accused of stealing surgical equipment from Daniel