The amount it cost Peter Cosco, slave, to buy his freedom in the year 1792: 100 pounds. Finding the original document of the transaction 215 years later and saving it...
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Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African–American Research...
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Americans have usually admired those who reinvent themselves, flouting limits and crossing borders. But crossing the color line, it seems, was always different. That...
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ISLE OF WIGHT, Va. – While their white counterparts often easily reach into their families’ pasts, many black Americans assume their history beyond their...
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