Garnet’s Address in Context
by Jake Alspaugh
Understand the origins of Garnet’s speech.
Harriet, the Moses of Her People
1886
Read an authorized description of Tubman’s escape written by a White woman who had interviewed Tubman.
Harriet Tubman’s reflection in The Refugee
1856
Read Tubman’s memories of enslavement and freedom in her own words.
Free African American Population, 19th Century
by Michael Siegel
Explore the change in free Black populations over time across the North, South, and Midwest.
Black Women’s Leadership and Organizing in the Civil Rights Movement
by Keisha N. Blain
Explore the civil rights leadership of JoAnn Robinson, Ella Baker, and Fannie Lou Hamer.
“An Address to the Slaves of the United States”
1843
Explore this speech, rejected by the National Colored Convention.
Representation on the Stage, Screen, and Airwaves
by Kenya Davis-Hayes
Explore the history of Black performance from Reconstruction through the 1960s.
The Great Migration and the Making of Modern America
by Davarian L. Baldwin
Explore the impact of the “Exodus from Dixie.”
Global Africans and Transatlantic Slaving to the United States
by Kwasi Konadu
Explore the origins of and predecessors to the transatlantic slave trade.
Afonso and the Slave Trade
by John K. Thornton
Explore the origins and evolution of the slave trade in Kongo and Portugal.
Haiti and the Age of Abolition
by Marlene L. Daut
Understand the legacy of the Haitian Revolution and its global impact.
Black Studies: Its Origin and Place in the Twenty-First Century
by Abul Pitre
Develop an understanding of the birth and evolution of African American Studies, Black Studies, and other adjacent fields.
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