Always read Dr. Morgan
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In today’s post, editors of Global Black Thought, interview Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan about her research and writing. Dr. Morgan, a 2025 McArthur Fellow, is Professor of History in the department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black
CSA actions in defense of slavery relevant, too:
US Major Gen. D. Hunter to Jefferson Davis, 23 Apr. 1863
You say you are fighting for liberty. Yes you are fighting for liberty: liberty to keep four millions of your fellow-beings in ignorance and degradation;–liberty to separate parents and children, husband and wife, brother and sister;–liberty to steal the products of their labor, exacted with many a cruel lash and bitter tear,–liberty to seduce their wives and daughters, and to sell your own children into bondage;–liberty to kill these children with impunity, when the murder cannot be proven by one of pure white blood. This is the kind of liberty–the liberty to do wrong–which Satan, Chief of the fallen Angels, was contending for when he was cast into Hell.
Eric Beckman