John Wesley Blassingame served as the chairman of the African-American studies program at Yale University. He was a scholar, historian, educator, and writer who pioneered in the study of American slavery. Blassingame was born on March 23, 1940, in Covington, Georgia, to Grady and Odessa Blassingame. He received a bachelor's degree at Fort Valley State […]

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