Not All Roses – Marriage Under Slavery

When we think of marriage in the U.S., many of us think of love and choice and security and joy – and how we hope to have those things some day. We think of finding that special someone from all the people in the world and choosing them just as they choose us. ...

When We Claim Slaves Had It Good

I do not know what to say when delusion, misinformation, willful ignorance . . . when all the aphorisms and guises of deception speak to me and expect me to answer. I’ve never known quite what to say when I catch someone in a lie. Slavery wasn’t that bad....