For Enslaved People, the Holiday Season was a Time for Revelry – and a brief Window to Fight Back
By Ana Lucia Araujo, THE CONVERSATION | Editorial credit: Montez Kerr / shuttertsock.com During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved men, women and children also enjoyed the holidays. Slave owners usually gave them bigger portions of food, gifted them alcohol and provided extra days of rest. Those gestures, however, were not made out […]
