Most of us know that before the American Civil ... the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided below it and free black people above it, with every man, woman and child in chains ...

Anya Jabour, Ph.D., has been teaching and researching the history of women, families and children in the 19th-century South ... and Sexuality Studies and African-American Studies and has received ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

Recently, historians have worked hard to recover the lives and experiences of African American women in 19th-century America. Often we are reliant on occasions when such women interacted with ...