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Derrick Spires, Cornell University – Antebellum Social MediaDerrick Spires, Cornell University – Antebellum Social Media
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Derrick Spires, Cornell University – Antebellum Social MediaDerrick Spires, Cornell University – Antebellum Social Media

On Cornell University Week: Was there social media in the 1830’s? Derrick Spires, associate professor of English, determines how Black voices communicated. Derrick R. Spires is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. He specializes in early

On Cornell University Week: Was there social media in the 1830’s? Derrick Spires, associate professor of English, determines how Black voices communicated. Derrick R. Spires is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. He specializes in early African American and American print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history. His first book, The Practice […]

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