Arthur Tappan

When women are missing from the history we tell, sometimes it’s because of how their stories were preserved and told in the past.

And justified the most extreme responses.

The bonfire was a public spectacle for Black people, as well as any white dissenters. It was a calculated warning.

Outright racism met financial opportunity when men like Isiah Rynders accrued wealth through legal, but nefarious, means.

In the antebellum South, the slave trader’s office was a site of desire.