Mutual Assistance: Building Black Community Life in Freedom
by Lois E. Horton
Take a closer look at the history of mutual aid society and their activity in Free Black communities.
Richard Allen, Jarena Lee, and the Second Great Awakening
by Margaret Washington
Read about the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, a Self-Made Man
by Vincent Carretta
Explore Equiano’s life story and the influence of his autobiography on the abolitionist movement.
Phillis Wheatley, a “Genius in Bondage”
by Vincent Carretta
Explore the life, career, and legacy of the poet who was the first person of sub-Saharan African descent to publish a book.
The Development of Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World
by Michael Guasco
Learn about global systems of slavery in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.
The Life and Work of Phillis Wheatley
with Krystal Mackie, Jeanette Providence, and Sandra Trenholm
Discover the eighteenth-century poet who was enslaved, became free, and built a lasting legacy.
Douglass and the US Constitution: The Dred Scott Decision
by Randall Kennedy
Explore Frederick Douglass‘s response to the Dred Scott case.
“What Is Slavery?”
with Brenda Stevenson
Explore how the globalization of trade propelled the business of slavery.
Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
with Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Harris
Learn how sexuality was a point of both exploitation and resistance for enslaved people.
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
with Kellie Carter Jackson
Explore the history of Black abolitionism in the antebellum period.
City of Refuge
with Marcus P. Nevius
Explore the history of freed peoples in the Great Dismal Swamp and their relationship to maroon communities.
Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
with James Oakes
Understand the evolution of the antislavery interpretation of the Constitution.
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