Slavery and Disability Discourse
In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that
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Theorists, Strategists, and Histories of Slavery
In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that
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Online Forum–Contested Citizenship: Legacies of American Slavery
August 2, 2021 to August 10, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating
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The Revolt That Almost Overthrew Slavery
In 1763, in a remote corner of the Atlantic world, enslaved people came closer than ever before to overthrowing slavery
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Mass Incarceration and the Metaphor of Slavery
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. In We Are Not
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