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Theorists, Strategists, and Histories of Slavery

In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that

In July 1971, over six hundred domestic workers from thirty different cities gathered together in Washington D.C. at the first

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a

The Communist Party (CPUSA) was a leader in the antifascist left in the 1930s. The Party had a broad

In 1887, William J. Simmons, a United States Colored Troops (USCT) veteran turned historian, expressed his gratitude to Black