Although President Abraham Lincoln officially freed all those held in slavery with the Jan. 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, the actual end of the “peculiar institution” didn’t happen all ...

Black in Blues, by Imani Perry (Ecco). This cultural history of the color blue, and how it threads through Black lives and “the peculiar institution of slavery,” opens with the indigo trade in ...

Object Details author Campbell, Randolph B. 1940-Notes ELEC copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds Elecresource Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Colonial Period, 1821-1835: ...