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400 Years

About the Substack

Here are essays that blend biography and narrative nonfiction to recover the Black tradition of resistance too often left out of American textbooks.

About Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

Professor and Public Historian l Antebellum South, Civil War & Reconstruction l University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Author of The Architecture of Freedom: Black Power and the American Republic (forthcoming).

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