This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South made sense of the devastating loss of life unleashed by the Civil War and emancipation. During

Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and

A timely and significant examination of how Black athletes have used their influence to create meaningful change and reform for Black Americans. In the age of s

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For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abol