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Making Sense of Slavery

America's Long Reckoning, From the Founding Era to Today
  • Scott Spillman
2025
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  • Slave auction in the United States.
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    How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery

    On the scholarship and intellectual legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and other academics.
    by Scott Spillman via Literary Hub on March 10, 2025
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    How the Study of Slavery Has Shaped the Academy

    Who decides how history gets written?
    by Scott Spillman via The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 4, 2025
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