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Britt Rusert

Britt Rusert is Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture.

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History has tended to sanitize the lives of abolitionists, many of whom were involved in other radical movements as well, including Free Love, which promoted women’s independence and an end to traditional marriage.

Britt Rusert

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The history of BiDil adds one more twist to the story Murch exposes.
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