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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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The History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital

February 10, 2018February 13, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham black politics, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, race, Washington DC

2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a crucial moment for Washington, D.C. On April 4, 1968, following news of Dr.

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New Directions in Black Women’s History

February 5, 2018February 8, 2018 Sasha Turner Black women, black women scholars, slavery

The New Directions in Female Bondage roundtable at this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), featured the recent

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Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean: A New Book on Atlantic Slavery

January 27, 2018February 2, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, archives, Caribbean, freedom, 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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