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“Many nights lain in each other’s bosoms”: This TikTok will open your eyes about queerness during slavery
Daguerreotype portrait of American abolitionist Frederick Douglass (Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) (1817 – 1895) as a young man, 1848. Formerly enslaved he became the first Black man to be ...
The Conversation UK on MSN22h
My new history of romanticism shows how enslavement shaped European culture
According to one strand of history, slavery was abolished when Europeans found their conscience. According to another, it was ...