Race, Reconstruction, and Reparations
This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her
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The American Revolution and the Hope of Black People
The recent convergence of publicized anti-black police violence, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the approaching Presidential
Read moreBook Review: Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County
Last April, I wrote a post for this blog, entitled “Why did Nat Tuner ‘confess‘?” I argued that Turner’s goal
Read moreRethinking Early Slave Literacy
Last month, I wrote about how slaves and free blacks appropriated Euro-American languages and their ability to use them to
Read moreAbolition in the New Year
Far more people probably know the importance of January 1, 1863 than they do the significance of January 1, 1808.
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