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Tag: “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
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Nation & World
Solving a mystery of 19th-century literary history
Scholar’s new biography nails down identity of earliest known Black American woman novelist, first theorized by Gates
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Nation & World
Slavery’s lost lives, found
Historian Richard Dunn talks about his new book, a sweeping historical analysis of life on two plantations in Jamaica and Virginia across the final decades of slavery.
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Nation & World
The invention of childhood innocence
In a new book, Harvard professor Robin Bernstein says that the concept of childhood innocence only dates to the 19th century, and was only applied to whites.
