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Reassessing African-European Encounters

Reassessing African-European Encounters

Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an …
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy

Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy

As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal …
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Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South

Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South

The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where …
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