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On the Rich, Hidden History of the Banjo

On the Rich, Hidden History of the Banjo

Kristina R. Gaddy on the Instrument’s Spiritual and Cultural Significance

By Kristina R. Gaddy | October 24, 2022

How the Survivors of Slavery Used Material Objects to Preserve Intergenerational Wisdom

How the Survivors of Slavery Used Material Objects to Preserve Intergenerational Wisdom

Tiya Miles Considers the Importance of Material Ownership in the Context of Black History

By Tiya Miles | September 26, 2022

13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

Part Three in the “13 Ways of Looking” Series

By Maud Newton | August 18, 2022

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

David Hackett Fischer on New Tools of Truth-Seeking

By David Hackett Fischer | June 2, 2022

The Erased Lives of Enslaved Women Forced to Have the Children of Their Enslavers

The Erased Lives of Enslaved Women Forced to Have the Children of Their Enslavers

Kristen Green on Mary Lumpkin, Sally Hemings, and Many More Whose Names We Don’t Know

By Kristen Green | April 22, 2022

Tracing the Ancestry of the Earliest Enslaved Ndongo People

Tracing the Ancestry of the Earliest Enslaved Ndongo People

Clyde W. Ford on a Story Born in Blood

By Clyde W. Ford | April 8, 2022

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J.D. Dickey on the Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson’s America

By Keen On | March 1, 2022

Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives

By Emergence Magazine | February 28, 2022

Inside Africatown’s Fight to Create a National Monument for the Enslaved

By Ben Raines | February 10, 2022

How Slavery Was Written Out of the Declaration of Independence

How Slavery Was Written Out of the Declaration of Independence

Willard Sterne Randall on Thomas Jefferson’s Original Bill of Indictment Against George III

By Willard Sterne Randall | February 8, 2022

Bernardine Evaristo on Lessons Learned From Toni Morrison

Bernardine Evaristo on Lessons Learned From Toni Morrison

“As a writer, Morrison asks us to do some of the work.”

By Bernardine Evaristo | February 3, 2022

A Brief History of Mass-Manufactured Clothing

A Brief History of Mass-Manufactured Clothing

Sofi Thanhauser on the Early Days of Ready-to-Wear

By Sofi Thanhauser | January 27, 2022

Imani Perry on Writing the Story of the American South

Imani Perry on Writing the Story of the American South

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By Corinne Segal | January 26, 2022

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A.E. Rooks on the Ongoing Repercussions of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

By A.E. Rooks | January 21, 2022

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on the Ways We Replicate Thomas Jefferson’s Sins

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson on the Ways We Replicate Thomas Jefferson’s Sins

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By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 2, 2021

Lincoln’s Dictatorship: How the President Broke the Constitutional Compact in Order to Save It

Lincoln’s Dictatorship: How the President Broke the Constitutional Compact in Order to Save It

Noah Feldman on the Rupture That Predated the Emancipation Proclamation

By Noah Feldman | November 15, 2021

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