New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter
The 1830s was the high-tide of Jacksonianism, an era many historians consider the nadir of early American history. Although universal
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The Criminalized Majority
by Dan Berger and David Stein “Everyone should go to jail, say, once every ten years,” opined novelist and poet
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Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July
*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of
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Uncovering Lisbon’s Forgotten History of Slavery
By all accounts, the Portuguese capital of Lisbon is a strikingly beautiful city, but—like so many entrepôt Mediterranean cities of
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Contested Bodies: A New Book on Black Motherhood and Slavery in Jamaica
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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