Whose Independence?
The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.
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Illustration by Colin Hunter. Sources: Heritage Images / Getty; Universal History Archive / Getty. Black America’s Neglected Origin Stories
The history of Blackness on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.
Gordon C. James Jefferson’s Doomed Educational Experiment
The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.
Celina Pereira What If Reconstruction Hadn’t Failed?
The pervasiveness of white-supremacist ideology in academia gave license to Jim Crow efforts for decades after the Civil War.
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