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Abolition and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean: An Interview with Andrea Morales Loucil

November 10, 2025November 4, 2025 Ashley Everson 0 Comments
#globalblackthought, Afro-Caribbean, Performance, Puerto Rico

In today’s post, Ashley Everson, a managing editor of Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Andrea Morales Loucil about

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The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Frank Kalisik race, slavery

In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in

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The Historical Roots of Abolition in the Twenty-First Century

June 11, 2021June 9, 2021 Julia Bernier Activism, black radical tradition, Haiti, slavery, white supremacy

In June 2020 Mariame Kaba penned an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, “Yes We Literally Mean Abolish

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Reckoning with Carceral Technologies Through Abolition

November 17, 2020November 23, 2020 Brittany Friedman #ThoseWhoKnow, carceral state, mass incarceration, Prison Abolition, prisons

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.

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Distinguishing Abolition from Reform

September 24, 2020September 22, 2020 Sasha Turner #CapitalismandSlavery, abolition, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, imperialism, race, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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