There is a lot of documented history analyzing enslaved people’s marriages and forced separations but there is very little mention of divorce.
Author: Eve Galanis
Eve Galanis is a historian, social studies teacher, artist and performer based in Connecticut. She has presented her research at historical conferences including Yale University's Ethnic Studies Symposium and the National Council on Public History. She has been featured as guest on NPR to discuss Connecticut's LGBTQ+ history. Her thesis "Borders and Bodies: The El Paso Quarantine and Mexican Women's Resistance," was recently published by the University of Alabama's journal of history, The Crimson Review. She currently teaches History and Philosophy in Connecticut.
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Primary source research, uncovers the mental health treatment of LGBTQ individuals in Connecticut.
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South African Antiquity: Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe
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Intersections of Black and Indigenous History in the United States
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Breaking Away From the Slave Narrative: Analysis of Black Resilience History
In this article, I examine history books that were written to address Atlantic slavery in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Each one provides a complex analysis and reveals that in order to truly understand the system of slavery, we must take into account all the layers of both systemic genocide, as well as the…