Merritt, Keri Leigh. 2017. Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Moore, Sean D. 2019. Slavery and the Making of Early American ...

This early Christian complicity in the sexual exploitation of slaves disturbs me. Even more disturbing is the realization of the many ways that American culture today prejudges the morality of human ...

Slaves built and worked in these buildings; they lived in the main College Building, and likely the other buildings, too. As with other early American sites, the more ephemeral landscapes of gardens, ...

But the North American variation and reinvention of African tradition in the early nineteenth-century was not monolithic. That is to say, depending on the region and the demands of the musical ...

Newspaper sketch of slave auction in Virginia, 1861. NYPL Digital Gallery, The New York Public Library Early on ... Following the Mexican-American War in 1848, President James K.

Whether born slave or free ... Maria Stewart was America's first female African American political writer. Producing most of her work in the early 1830s, she preceded Sojourner Truth, Frances ...

Early styles of tapping called for hard-soled ... “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.” “I can truly say, I have spent some of the happiest moments of my life ...