Historical and archaeological records show that racism and white supremacy defined the social fabric of the northeastern states as much as they did the Deep Sou

This collection of essays looks at evidence from both new sites and well-known areas to explore race, resistance and supremacy in the Northeast, showing that su

Investigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, James Delle presents the fi

"Orser argues that race has not always been defined by skin color; through time its meaning has changed. The process of racialization has marked most groups who

The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people u