Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau
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Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditat…
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Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Civil War America)
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of th…
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Black Skin, White Masks
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for …
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffer…
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To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley’s Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a swee…
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