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Book 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

Last month, I wrote about how slaves and free blacks appropriated Euro-American languages and their ability to use them to

Far more people probably know the importance of January 1, 1863 than they do the significance of January 1, 1808.

In my previous two posts, I have made an attempt to better understand early African American intellectual history, first providing

As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that