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Got a Question? Ask a Slave

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 5, 2013
Azie Dungey started her acting career as “the time-traveling black girl”: she played “every black woman of note that ever lived” in regional theaters and at historic sites around Washington,…
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A Glimpse of Modern-Day Slavery

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 20, 2013
I am alive today because of that truck driver. He saved my life trafficking me, taking my money, selling me to another master. There is no help given for free.…
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The Rumpus Interview with Joe Mozingo

  • Peter Orner
  • March 4, 2013
Journalist Joe Mozingo digs deep into his ancestral history to uncover the origin behind his surname, and discovers it's one of the few African names to survive not only the Middle Passage, but the history of American slavery itself.
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Why the Civil War Is Still Worth Talking About

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • February 13, 2013
Byliner’s list of spectacular nonfiction articles of 2012 highlights two complementary essays from the Atlantic‘s Civil War issue. First, Yoni Appelbaum uses a hyperrealistic “cyclotron” painting of the Battle of Gettysburg…
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The Reproductive Rights Stories You Haven’t Heard

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 22, 2013
As a historian, I amplify these echoes as reminders that the abortion movement was never monochromatically white. We can ill afford these silences at a time when women’s actions during…
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“To My Old Master”

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 1, 2012
Here’s a letter written in 1865 by an ex-enslaved man, Jourdan Anderson, in response to his former master’s request that Jourdan return to work on his farm. “I served you…
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Politics Sunday

  • Seth Fischer
  • February 28, 2010
Here’s lots of good info on the situation in Chile, and here’s some more. We’re all thinking of folks down there. Who wants a Sumatran tiger for a pet? “The inescapable truth…
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Voices in the Wilderness

  • Anita Burdman Feferman
  • February 17, 2009
A review of Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (with help from John Updike)
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