"During cross examination, Washington said there was a police car and barrier on Market Street preventing her from dri…"

"Washington described hearing a loud noise then noticing someone on top of her car."

"The assassination of Caldwell is symbolic of the reign of terror that defeated Reconstruction, democracy, Black polit…"

"During the 1870s, Black political participation was the primary motivation for White supremacist violence. Black poli…"

"Many slave owners looked at black women’s bodies as a source of free labor and often forced relationships or raped en…"

"Margaret Garner, who was born as an enslaved girl, almost certainly did not plan to kill her child when she grew up a…"

"Herbal remedies to induce miscarriage were equally well known to enslaved women. Slaves often grew herbs and mixed th…"

"Black women have been aborting themselves since the earliest days of slavery. Many slave women refusing to bring chil…"

"Legend has popularized the image of the Caribbean as a woman compelled to suckle a snake all night long. This image o…"

"Throughout Antillean oral culture,” writes Maryse Conde in “La parole des femmes” (Women’s Word; 1979), “the mother i…"