Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A New Book on the Idea of Reparations
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Slavery, the Plantation Myth, and Alternative Facts
Earlier this year, NBC journalist Chuck Todd pressed the Counselor to the US President, Kellyanne Conway, to explain spurious claims made
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Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender
“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s
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Uncovering Lisbon’s Forgotten History of Slavery
By all accounts, the Portuguese capital of Lisbon is a strikingly beautiful city, but—like so many entrepôt Mediterranean cities of
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Contested Bodies: A New Book on Black Motherhood and Slavery in Jamaica
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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