The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists
In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in
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Correcting the Anti-Black Civil War Commemorative Landscape in Harrisburg, PA
This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Dedicated during the national reckoning of
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Black Burials and Civil War Forgetting in Olustee, Florida
This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Like so many Civil War battlefields,
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy
As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.
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Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey
Chattel enslavement was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, shortly after the Dutch first settled
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