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Exposing the Primary Agents and Beneficiaries of Racism

March 7, 2018March 11, 2018 Chad Pearson #MasterlessMen, Racial Violence, racism, reconstruction, slavery, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Ta-Nehisi Coates and members of his fan club must read

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Antebellum Law and the Southern Justice System

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 Michael Landis #MasterlessMen, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. I must confess from the outset that I never had

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Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery

March 5, 2018March 11, 2018 Jessica Parr #MasterlessMen, capitalism, Politics, racism, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians

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Slavery and the History of Abolition: An Interview with Manisha Sinha

March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, slavery

In today’s post, Rebecca Brenner, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at American University, interviews Manisha Sinha on

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Black Love as Activism

February 28, 2018March 3, 2018 Nicole Jackson Activism, black, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, Resistance

Last year was incredibly difficult. There was something that seemed more painful than usual about the deluge of the twenty-four-hour

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