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Broomsticks and Material Cultures of Cleanliness in American Slavery

November 8, 2018November 11, 2018 Tyler Parry Gender, Resistance, slavery, South

In 1901 preeminent Black Sociologist W.E.B. Du Dois published an essay entitled, “The Home of the Slave,” which detailed his

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‘Sexuality and Slavery’: A New Book on Intimate Histories in the Americas

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 J. T. Roane sexuality, slavery

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, Land Ownership, and Black Women’s Community Networks

October 25, 2018November 3, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Gender, race, slavery

Delia Garlic, a former slave in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana knew the worst of slavery, including violent punishment and forced

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Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, reparations, slave trade, slavery

Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,

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A History of Slavery in the United States

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Calvin Schermerhorn slavery

This is an excerpt from Calvin Schermerhorn’s Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2018). This excerpt has been reprinted

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