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Karen Cook Bell

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On War and U.S. Slavery: Enslaved Black Women’s Experiences

Enslaved women’s experiences with war must be extended to include the everyday warfare of slavery.

by Karen Cook Bell via Black Perspectives on November 7, 2022
Black Women and American Freedom in Revolutionary America

The relationship between enslaved women and the Revolutionary war.

by Karen Cook Bell via Black Perspectives on July 13, 2021

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'Home Builders': Free Labor Households and Settler Colonialism in Western Civil War Commemorations

On the gendered dimensions of trans-Mississippi Civil War memory, the idea of the single-family household, and the politics of expansion and settlement.

by Robert D. Bland, Lindsey R. Peterson via Muster on April 23, 2025

40 Acres and a Lie

We compiled Reconstruction-era documents to identify 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers.

by Alexia Fernández Campbell, April Simpson, Pratheek Rebala via Mother Jones on June 13, 2024

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