Black Women and the Southampton Rebellion
In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat
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Nat Turner
Black Rebellion and the Political Imaginations of African American Teachers
Nat Turner became an impromptu topic of discussion in my third grade classroom. Ms. Todman had a way of getting
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Brother to Brother: An Open Letter to Nate Parker
Dear Brother Nate: I write to you as my brother because I cannot think of anything else to call you
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Nate Parker, Rape Culture, and Toxic Masculinity
Over the past seventy-two hours, the Internet has been abuzz over Nate Parker’s involvement in a seventeen-year-old rape case. Journalists
Read moreBook Review: Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County
Last April, I wrote a post for this blog, entitled “Why did Nat Tuner ‘confess‘?” I argued that Turner’s goal
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