In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman addresses a central issue of the American
founding: how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly …

Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the
slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of …

In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves
transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women …

The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of
the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 …

Analyzing the material remains left by Maryland's colonists in the eighteenth century in
conjunction with historical records and works of art, archaeologists have reconstructed the …

Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The
Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old …

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified
slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and …

Historians of the Civil War often speak of" wars within a war"—the military fight, wartime
struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end …

From its establishment in the months following the Civil War by a motley assortment of
disgruntled former rebels, the first Ku Klux Klan, like its many vigilante counterparts …

IN DECEMBER 1851 A GRAND JURY IN HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, IN-dicted
Stephen, a slave who belonged to Nunn Miller, for the rape and attempted rape of Mary …