Reimagining the Quest for Black Freedom in the USA: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
It took me some time to understand what Hartman was creating with this book; to understand that...
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All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: Recovering the Untold Stories of Black Women in America
First she was told about a grain sack dating from around 1851 that had these words embroidered on...
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Woman Writer Saidiya Hartman
Black woman writer, author and scholar Tiya Miles is inspired by and gives credit and mention to...
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Polly Coppinger’s Son: Osceola,”Master Spirit of the Seminole Nation” (1804-1838)
National Indigenous Peoples Day is being celebrated across the United States this week. Malinda...
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Memorials to the Victims of the Middle Passage: Listening to Woman Writer Toni Morrison
In several interviews after the publication of her 1987 novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison laments the...
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Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Woman Writer on Slavery and the Haunting that Persists.
Woman writer Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a novel about the enslavement of Black Americans and its...
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Women Writers on Writing – Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
In her book, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Woman Writer Toni...
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers – They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
In her book, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, Stephanie...
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Ona Judge – American (1773-1848): Enslaved by and On the Run From Martha and George Washington
Ona Judge’s freedom meant more to her than anything, in spite of what those who chose to enslave...
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