One of the more challenging areas of pulmonary medicine remains elucidating the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). IPF is a devastating disease process with death occurring in the majority of patients within 5 years of diagnosis (1). A major reason for...

Jobbing gangs—large groups of enslaved people who were principally hired out to dig sugarcane holes—were a crucial component of the British Caribbean slave economy. Emerging first in the early eighteenth century, they comprised approximately 10 percent of enslaved peopl...

This is an author's response to a critical forum by five scholars, focused on the digital article "Hidden in Plain Sight: Escaped Slaves in Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century Jamaica," William and Mary Quarterly/OI Reader, 2018.

The importance of slavery to colonial South Carolina's economy and society is well-known, but the central place of the slave trade in colonial Charleston's economy and society is less well understood. Nearly half of the enslaved African people forcibly settled in what b...