Farah Peterson is a law professor and legal historian at the University of Chicago Law School.
Farah Peterson
On Our Knees
What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power
by Farah Peterson | Tuesday, September 07, 2021
The Patriot Slave
The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America
by Farah Peterson | Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Black Lives and the Boston Massacre
John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve always understood it, the ultimate expression of principle and the rule of law