Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names
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The Globalization of American Racial Exclusion
In hindsight, historians of American immigration will be pressed to name the first two decades of the twenty-first century as
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The United States and Colonial Zimbabwe: Pan-African Linkages
In 1965, the racially-driven political crisis in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) entered a dramatic new
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Progressive Movements and the Importance of Failure
Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived
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The Importance of Sarah Forten’s Abolitionist Poetry
Depictions of slavery in the United States have captivated audiences for centuries. In honor of the recent National Poetry Month
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