Search Results for: Civil War

A Black Woman’s Story of Sacrifice and Survival

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Alexis Cathcart abolition, Black women

On January 4, 1861−one week before Alabama officially seceded from the Union−a 65-year-old freed Black woman named Sally Johnson, petitioned

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Online Forum–The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me

March 18, 2024March 15, 2024 AAIHS Editors #BooksArchivesMonuments, Black History, books, forum

March 19, 2024 to March 28, 2024  Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

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The Life of Betsey Stockton

February 20, 2024February 8, 2024 Christopher D. E. Willoughby Black women, book review, religion, slavery

Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force.

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Philadelphia’s ‘Black Shining Prince’

February 13, 2024February 9, 2024 Menika Dirkson Activism, education, Philadelphia

Securely tucked away in the Print Department of The Library Company of Philadelphia’s collection of over 100,000 photographs, maps, drawings,

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National Freedom Day Kicks Off Black History Month

January 18, 2024January 16, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black intellectual history, black radical tradition, freedom

In the United States, there is a history of African American holidays, festivals, and celebrations. Scholars such as William H. Wiggins, Jr., Angela

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