Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey
Chattel enslavement was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, shortly after the Dutch first settled
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Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South
The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where
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An Environmental History of Slavery: An Interview with David Silkenat
In today’s post, Adam X. McNeil, a regular contributor of Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. David Silkenat on his new book,
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Black Women and the Racialization of Infanticide
“Knowledge of the human body constituted a form of property as important – or even more important than – the
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Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror
A version of the following comments was delivered at the opening of the exhibit An Elegy to Rosewood at the
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