Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping stra

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Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping stra

In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first an

Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate th