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Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence

In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the

In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren did a study on how the socioeconomic conditions of the neighborhoods

From the 16th to 19th centuries, enslaved people of African descent found multiple ways to resist their oppressors and liberate

Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force.

In the late 1820s, an industrious Black woman from Mississippi was living in Coahuila as a free woman and a