I've been trying to write and overall busy with other things, so I haven't had time for a grave post in the last couple of days. For those of you though who look to this site for all things historical graves, let me send you...
slavery
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.
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.
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. Luckily, there are people fighting to remember and preserve: Almost 20 years ago,...
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.
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..
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 of these migrants to slaves forcibly migrated to the U.S. on...
Underground Railroad routes 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.
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 cook's attempt.
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 enslaved and remained that way her entire life, even after...
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.
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.