Recently, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time looking through the minutes of the Colored Convention movement. Beginning in the early 1830s, national conventions were held on a regular […]
Beyond 12 Years A Slave: The Early Black Press and the Kidnapping of Free Black Children by Kim Gallon
Over the past few months, Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years a Slave has reinvigorated a public conversation about the history of slavery in the United States. The film is probably […]