Henry "Box" Brown

In his day, Brown was a celebrated stage magician who incorporated performance into his lectures on abolitionism in the United States and England.

New information on Henry Box Brown, an enslaved man who would turn escape into an art form.

A new biography of William Still show how the abolitionist documented the underground railroad as he helped people through it.

In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves.

An accounting of racist murders in nineteenth-century America.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

The movement for racial equality echoes the vision of the “August First Day” holiday.

Historians’ lectures provide material for improv comedians.

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.

To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.