It was, in essence, an early feminist institution – but exclusively for white women. The myth that women didn’t profit from slavery has endured for several reasons. First, before the American ...

The Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 36, No. 2, Spring 2022 Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-C... Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy This is the metadata ...

It was an early version of the data maps so popular on the internet today and showed the exact percentage of enslaved people in each American county ... the spread of slavery truly was.

This early Christian complicity in the sexual exploitation of slaves disturbs me. Even more disturbing is the realization of the many ways that American culture today prejudges the morality of human ...

Today, this question bitterly divides the Jewish people. But it is not the first time it has done so. Passover begins this year on April 12, the 164 th anniversary of the Confederate bombardment of ...

And the early history of America indicates that it probably did not." But by the episode's end, the transformation to a system of racial slavery is complete. On the eve of the American Revolution ...

Slaves built and worked in these buildings; they lived in the main College Building, and likely the other buildings, too. As with other early American sites, the more ephemeral landscapes of gardens, ...

Many of the early leaders, staff and financial supporters of Columbus Public Library when it opened in 1873 were ...

But the North American variation and reinvention of African tradition in the early nineteenth-century was not monolithic. That is to say, depending on the region and the demands of the musical ...