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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

The newer diasporic historiography has sought to reconnect the deracinated individual back to resilient and original African cultures or to Afro-American ... slavery. It is also a book addressed to ...

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 ...