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Issue	Title	Column	Author
Vol. 14 No. 2	Memory as History, Memory as Activism	Features	Manisha Sinha
Vol. 16 No. 1	Will the Real Henry “Box” Brown Please Stand Up?	Features	Martha J. Cutter
Vol. 05 No. 1	Freedom in the Archives: Free African Americans in Colonial America	Features	Paul Heinegg, and Henry B. Hoff
Vol. 14 No. 2	The (Not So) Distant Kinship of Race, Family, and Law in the Struggle for Freedom	Reviews	R. Darrell Meadows
Vol. 01 No. 4	Of Racism and Remembrance	Features	Aaron Garrett
Vol. 01 No. 4	In Search of Slavery’s English Roots	Tales from the Vault	Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan, and Virginia Mason Vaughan
Vol. 11 No. 1	The Age of Phillis	Poetic Research	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Vol. 16 No. 2	Early American #BlackLivesMatter	Features	Jordan Alexander Stein
Vol. 12 No. 4	In the Wake of Jim Crow	Features	Brian Rouleau
Vol. 17 No. 3	Gallows Respectability	Features	Ajay Kumar Batra

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