Sublime

American exceptionalism, that sense that we are somehow special and ordained as such, is a myth sedimented on Southern prosperity: oil, coal, and cotton. Every piece of evidence of our national distinction has relied upon this wealth of the nation. As you certainly have already gleaned, I do not think genocide, slavery, and exploitation were worth

The Bahamas took a distinctly different course in relationship to the history of money-making than much of the region. African Americans who fought for the British in the Revolutionary War settled there to be free. Many of them came from the Low Country. In 1818, Great Britain declared that all enslaved Africans who set foot in the Bahamas would be

In Walter’s home, there is a box with a letter that Napoleon Bonaparte wrote to Toussaint L’Ouverture. And in another, letters Romare Bearden wrote to a lover. There’s a first edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, which is perhaps the most significant slave narrative written by a woman. His version was the pseudonymou

Indépendamment des échanges commerciaux, soulignent des personnalités importantes de la République nord-américaine, l’île risque de remettre en cause, ne serait-ce que par son seul exemple, l’institution de l’esclavage bien au-delà de ses frontières. Ses habitants sont de fait « des voisins dangereux pour les États du Sud et un asile pour les renég

Not only were the Cherokees growing, they were carving out a place for themselves within the new republic by adopting aspects of European culture. They ran plantations, bought slaves, and built a capital