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Enslaved Women’s Sexual Health: Reproductive Rights as Resistance

In 1841, Mrs. John Little crossed the Ohio River and left behind a life of bondage. After a long journey,

In today’s post, Tiana U. Wilson, managing editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. Patricia Romney on her new book, We

On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in

In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat

Janell Hobson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Albany.