Search Results for: Civil War

Claiming Freedom in the Low Country

May 13, 2020May 11, 2020 Adam McNeil Georgia, landownership, slavery

African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number

Read more

“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures

May 7, 2020May 3, 2020 Camille Goldmon blackness, entrepreneurs, Historical Memory

Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of

Read more

W.E.B. Du Bois: A New Book on The Life of a Radical Scholar

May 1, 2020April 26, 2020 J. T. Roane biography, Black radicalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Read more

‘A White Man Took Her’: Trauma, Loss, and Grief among the Enslaved

April 13, 2020April 12, 2020 Tyler Parry Civil War, Marriage, mourning, Post-Civil War, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with

Read more

Photographic Returns: A New Book on Racial Justice and the Time of Photography

March 13, 2020March 11, 2020 AAIHS Editors art, Black women, photography, time

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Read more