It’s not at all surprising that Ronald Reagan became a big gun control guy when the Black Panthers were marching on the California state capitol and then became a big gun guy when the NRA became
As part of the mental project by Americans to assume that most of us, especially those who were in the north, didn’t really approve of the slave trade, we’ve painted in our memories the sl
Tiya Miles is one of our finest historians and this excerpt from a recent essay of hers is powerful, connecting how racial domination of Black people already was a real thing on the Michigan frontier
I was in Louisiana once, visiting a plantation where slave housing still existed. And I saw what I still think is one of the most remarkable things I’ve ever seen. Most slave housing of course d
The Underground Railroad was not just taking slaves to Canada. There was a southern version too, heading down through Texas and into Mexico. Here’s a good story on it. While researching U.S. Civ
I recently finished reading Michael Twitty’s The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, a really fantastic book that follows this well-known cookR
On January 23, 1749, a supposed slave conspiracy was reported in Charleston, South Carolina. This probably nonexistent conspiracy is a good window into the complexities of the slave labor system and t
I referenced this in the post on the bill to ban goods made from Chinese Muslim concentration camp prisons yesterday, but Neil Katyal arguing for child slavery on behalf of the most reprehensible corp