David Walker

Digitization allows researchers to trace editorial and authorial changes in archival content. Both are central to the study of this famous abolitionist pamphlet.

Black-authored print was central to James G. Birney’s conversion from enslaver to abolitionist and presidential candidate.

With "Force and Freedom," Carter Jackson makes a stimulating and insightful debut which will have a major influence on abolition movement scholarship.

A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

And justified the most extreme responses.

The common denominator? Fear of Black liberation.

Entangled with, yet critical of, colonial oppression and the evils of slavery, the true history of Boston can now be told.

On Hosea Easton’s and David Walker’s attempts to debunk scientific racism.

"Published by the Author" explores the resourcefulness of Black writers of the nineteenth century.

It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.

Thousands of free-born Black people in the North were kidnapped into slavery through networks that operated as a form of “Reverse Underground Railroad.”

Addressing systemic racism and state violence is not enough.

Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?

The proliferation of antebellum print is analogous to our own tectonic shifts in how people communicate and what they communicate about.

Why it's so important to remember even our ugliest and most racist chapters.

The pre-Civil War North was a landscape not of unremitting white supremacy but of persistent struggles over racial justice by both Blacks and whites.

Omar ibn Said was captured in Senegal at 37 and enslaved in Charleston. A devout Muslim, he later converted to the Christian faith of his enslavers. Or did he?

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.