In “The Kidnapping Club,” the historian Jonathan Daniel Wells describes the circle of slave catchers and police officers who terrorized New York’s Black population in the three decades before the Civil War. They snatched up children, as well as adults, and sold them into slavery. –New York Times
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Celebrating Louisa May Alcott Sunday, November 29, 2020 4:00 p.m. Eastern3:00pm Central, 2:00pm Mountain, 1:00pm Pacific, 9:00 pm GMT Via Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/CelebratingLMA Sponsored by the Louisa May Alcott Society The event will feature talks from two distinguished Alcott scholars: Daniel Shealy, “‘Not wise to keep for curious eyes to read’: The Value of Documentary and Textual Editing in Alcott
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By Crystal Lynn Webster
This history of black girls demonstrates the ways both the inner lives and material conditions of black girlhood offer richly complex additions to our understanding of American history. Read More
By Megan H. Glick
In what follows, I consider how oversights in historical understandings of infant subjectivity are multifaceted and would benefit from recent insights in biopolitical materialist theories that foreground interactional posthuman ontologies. Read More
