After many decades of neglect, the story of slavery in the North is reentering collective memories in...
Slavery
Underground Railroad activists and fugitive slaves had to improvise in response to ever-shifting circumstances. When I’ve used...
Through its representation of physical and psychological effects, Séjour’s story inaugurated the literary delineation of slavery’s submission-rebellion...
The rise of the Border South in the nineteenth century as a section was accompanied by conflict...
A bill of lading is a document issued by a carrier to a shipper acknowledging receipt of...
The ships traveling the pathways of the Middle Passage—and beyond—were anything but silent spaces. “A Kind of...
From the mid-18th century, Africans and people of African descent – many of them former slaves –...
Nearly two centuries before Rep.-elect Ayanna Pressley became Massachusetts’ first black woman elected to the U.S Congress...