Legislating Reproduction and Racial Difference
from Women and the American Story, The New York Historical
Take a deep dive into the legal doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem.
Black Volunteers in the Nation’s First Epidemic
1794
Read Absalom Jones and Richard Allen’s narrative of the African American community’s response to the 1793 yellow fever epidemic.
Voting restrictions for African Americans
1944
Investigate a pamphlet that documented cases of voter suppression in southern states written by a group of southern editors and writers.
The First Age of Reform
by Ronald G. Walters
Learn more about the debates related to colonization in the context of other antebellum reform movements.
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