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Maddening, Mundane, Moadim Lesimkhe
The summer wore on, sometimes so open-ended with shifts and worries and overbearing humidity that I found myself questioning how everything would settle into the more regulated academic season in autumn. But time…
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The Sin of Slavery
John Brown’s reaction to witnessing the physical harm and mistreatment of a friend of his who was enslaved drove him to seek justice, even including retribution if necessary – reminiscent of the story…
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Marooning into Abolition
A slave market located in Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, shaped the community of the isles even to the present day. The conditions slaves faced in their daily lives…
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A New (or Old) Society, but Always Broken
After the abolition of slavery in the United States, efforts to integrate communities, especially in states where slave-holding had been legal, began to spread. Civil rights were center stage for people trying to…