Donya Williams, the four-times great-granddaughter of a man named Moses Williams, asked me if I would…
Tag: black studies
Pleasant Roane (Rowan) and the road to manumission in Lynchburg
I’ve been meaning to write about Pleasant Roane for quite a while. I’ve always felt badly…
A peculiar inheritance: slavery and the case for reparations in the US
The draft journal paper below was produced in answer to a general call for papers on…