Mrs. Tamor and her six children. Helen and her son, a child of “tender years.” Margaret Garner, an “affectionate mother” […]
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Mrs. Tamor and her six children. Helen and her son, a child of “tender years.” Margaret Garner, an “affectionate mother” […]
The historiography of women’s lives under and role in slavery and the slave trade has changed substantially in the recent […]
Two paragraphs in my forthcoming book, Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, continue to haunt me. […]
In September, when an archivist at Fisk University asked me to help identify a ten-page manuscript from 1776 Saint-Domingue, my […]
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions imposed a new policy of “zero tolerance” for illegal immigration to the United States on April […]
Before I. It is early summer, 2018. I am a Virginian, but I have just moved to Charlottesville, Virginia after […]
The #Metoo movement has made public what women have long known: that sexual assault and harassment are endemic in many […]
“Enslaved women and their children enter the archives in little more than fragments.”1 In George Sand’s 1832 idealist novel, Indiana, […]
I am an American woman who has never experienced sexual assault, rape, or coercion. Bully for me, right? This detail […]
Antebellum physician James Marion Sims has been in the news quite a bit lately as a target of activism. After […]