The Life of Betsey Stockton
Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force.
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Black women
CFP: Black Women’s Activism in the Diaspora
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts for an online forum
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Mexican Freedom, American Slavery
In the late 1820s, an industrious Black woman from Mississippi was living in Coahuila as a free woman and a
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The Early Activism of Angela Davis
On October 13, 1970, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Angela Davis in New York facing indictments for kidnapping,
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Dorothy Porter, Archives, and the Preservation of Black Studies
The explosive growth of Black studies programs and departments after 1968 triggered a wave of bibliographic scholarship. Colleges, universities, and
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