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We can't let the January 6 insurrection overshadow the long history of Black insurrections against slavery in the U.S.

For most Americans, Jan 6 was once an ordinary, ho-hum day. That changed in 2021 when millions of television viewers watched thousands of Trump supporters assault the U.S. Capitol in their violent attempt to stop Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Legislators fled for their live...

For enslaved Americans, insurrection was often the only path to freedom. Are we misusing the term today?

The events of Jan. 6, 2021, have been called an insurrection. The same word has often been used to describe the mostly forgotten rebellions against plantation owners by enslaved people.

On the night of Jan. 8, 1811, a mixed-race man named Charles Deslondes led a group of people in an attack on a plantation owner in lower Louisiana that became

The story of enslaved Africans and their descendants is at the heart of American history.

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