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
You might not at first glance think swamps have long human histories that require remembrance and memorialization, but in the context of slavery and escape, they are quite central to our history. Luck
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
If you read one long piece today, make it Ryan Fontanilla’s discussion of his time in the Coast Guard patrolling to ensure no Haitian migrants enter the nation and how he compares the treatment
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
The almost totally unknown story of Julia Chinn is another example of how the inability of Black women to consent to sex with white men is a definitional issue in American history. She was born enslav
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
My dislike of the Hamilton musical is well-known and also multifaceted. Some of it is that I just don’t like the genre of musical theater so OK, you can ignore that if you are a fan. But part of