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Claiming Freedom in the Low Country

African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number

In early March 2020, I drove past miles of dredged canals and gangly loblolly pines toward the visitor center of

The study of slavery in New England has experienced something of a revival in the last decade. Given that New

In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with

In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American