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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: A New Book on the Value of the Enslaved

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and

This month, I interviewed Aisha Finch about her new book, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies

Although forms of systemic racism had certainly not gone away prior to Donald Trump’s election, that so many Americans voted

This month, I had the opportunity to interview Nathan H. Dize, one of the founding authors and the content curator,