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By Stephanie Jones-Rogers Slavery was a system created and sustained by a series of robberies. Such acts were committed not just by individuals but also by the government, at the state and federal level. Yes, the theft of people, their… Continue Reading →

By Maeve Glass “You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs.” — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1866 In recent years, a new history of abolition has come to the foreground, one that promises to transform how we… Continue Reading →

By Bernard E. Harcourt In the chapter titled “The General Strike” of his book Black Reconstruction in America, W.E.B. Du Bois demonstrates that the women and men who were enslaved in the South used their collective power, their labor and… Continue Reading →