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Read of the Day

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On August 28, 2013

Gabriel Winant's long-form book review of Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. A brief excerpt: People, too, suffered the violence of abstraction. Over.

12 Years A Slave

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On July 16, 2013

Although I could do without the big sweeping Hollywood music in the trailer, Steve McQueen's adaptation of Solomon Northup's slave narrative 12 Years a Slave looks to be incredibly promising..

On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a free African-American living in Charleston, South Carolina, was executed for his role in leading a purported slave rebellion. This event marked a significant increase in southern surveillance and oppression of free blacks and demonstrates the very real fear...
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