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Unsung unheralded narratives of American slavery & abolition The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; foreword by series editor Kevin Young ; edited with an ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...
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Slavery's Capitalism : A New History of American Economic Development / edited by Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman

Introduction. Slavery's capitalism / Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman -- Part 1. Plantation technologies. Toward a political economy of slave labor : hands, whipping-machines, and modern power / Edward E ...
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Claim that only 1.6% of Americans in 1860 owned slaves erases critical historical context

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook. As we previously reported, this claim ...

A slave-chain from Llyn Cerrig Bach

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