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Joshua D. Rothman
By the time he died in February 1824, Elisha Tyson had personally aided in the liberation of perhaps two thousand Black people.
Yet the only biography published about this remarkable…
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Joshua D Rothman
Reforming America, 1815-1860 offers insights into one of the most complex and dynamic periods in American history.
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An award-winning historian reveals the horrifying and forgotten story of slavery as big business – and its role in the making of America
In 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from western Tennessee to a territory known as the Arkansas morass in pursuit of John Murrell, a thief accused of stealing two slaves. Stewart’s adventure…
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An award-winning historian's "searing account" (The Wall Street Journal) of America's internal slave trade-and its role in the making of America
Joshua Rothman
This text examines interracial sexual relationships under slavery. While laws militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War it was ubiquitous throughout the state. The customery toleration of…
