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Five Myths About Slavery

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.
by Daina Ramey Berry, Talitha L. LeFlouria via Washington Post
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on February 7, 2020
A circa 1830 illustration of a slave auction in America. Rischgitz/Hulton Archive—Getty Images.

'The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

New Year's Day used to be widely known as "Hiring Day" or "Heartbreak Day"
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on December 27, 2019

The Mistress's Tools

White women and the economy of slavery.
by Lynne Feeley via The Nation
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on February 26, 2019

In the Dismal Swamp

Though Donald Trump has made it into a catchphrase, he didn’t come up with the metaphor “drain the swamp.”
by Sam Worley via Popula on September 20, 2018

Jefferson and Hemings: How Negotiation Under Slavery Was Possible

In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.
by Daina Ramey Berry via HISTORY on July 8, 2018

Bringing Rapes to Court

How sexual assault victims in colonial America navigated a legal system that was enormously stacked against them.
by Sharon Block via Commonplace on April 1, 2003
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