A Mind to Stay: A New Book on Black Landowners
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 2
This essay is Part Two of a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part
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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies
This essay is the first post in a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part
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This Vast Southern Empire: A New Book on Slaveholders and U.S. Foreign Policy
This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new
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Men without Pants: Masculinity and the Enslaved
Although nearly fifty-seven years have passed since Stanley Elkins’ provocative thesis on the effects of slavery rocked the historical community,
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