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South to America
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry
2022
Ecco
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Book Review
Imani Perry’s Capacious History of the South
Contrary to popular belief, the South has always been the key to defining the promise and limits of American democracy.
by
Robert Greene II
via
The Nation
on
September 17, 2022
First Person
I Searched for Answers About My Enslaved Ancestor. I Found Questions About America
'Did slavery make home always somewhere else?'
by
Imani Perry
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TIME
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January 13, 2022
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Confronting Georgetown’s History of Enslavement
In “The 272,” Rachel L. Swarns sets out how the country’s first Catholic university profited from the sale of enslaved people.
by
Paul Elie
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The New Yorker
on
June 27, 2023