Why did Nat Turner “confess”?
Turner sought to carry on in words the work he had begun with a sword. This blog has been blessed
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Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond
Delivered at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the panel
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Frederick Douglass is widely recognized as one of, if not the, foremost black intellectuals of the 19th century. His wide-ranging
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Time, Space, and Memory at Whitney Plantation
On February 28, 2015, the last day of Black History Month 2015 (or Black Future Month as the #blacklivesmatter and
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First an episode from nineteenth-century Brazil: in 1895 Raimundo Nina Rodrigues, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Bahia in
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