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The ‘Terrible Intimacy’ of Black and White Americans Amid Slavery’s Horror Original

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By Kate Masur
| The New York Times Verified
A TERRIBLE INTIMACY: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South, by Melvin Patrick Ely In a central Virginia courthouse in 1854, an enslaved man is prosecuted for raping a white woman. Black and white witnesses praise his character and attest that he could not have committed the crime because he was ill and incapacitated that day. He is ultimately exonerated. In 1861, an enslaved man is on trial for murder after assaulting his owner with a blow to the knee that contributed to his death.
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Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was for ‘the Babies of Slaves.’ He’s Wrong. Original

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By Martha Jones, Kate Masur
| The New York Times Verified
You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. Guest Essay March 30, 2026, 5:03 a.m. ET On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship as we have known it. The court’s eventual opinion in the case, Trump v.
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Jan. 6 and the Long Shadow of Civil War- and Reconstruction-Era Political Violence

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By Gregory P. Downs, Kate Masur
| Yahoo Verified
Two days after the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, we authored a piece for the Washington Post drawing on our expertise in Civil War and Reconstruction era political violence to contextualize what had happened.
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