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Black Mobility, Law, and Freedom

In 1849, an unnamed Missouri slave owner took a male slave to California to search for gold. Two years later,

“The turquoise waters still glimmer in the bright sun, and the beaches remain breezy and alluring.” So begins a recent

In 2010, two historians edited a collection of thirteen essays written by white historians about “The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.”

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which

Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between