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From Abolitionist to Race Woman: Charlotte Forten’s Black Feminist Legacy

September 7, 2026September 6, 2026 Mickell Carter 0 Comments
#globalblackthought, black women's intellectual history, Civil War, education, South Carolina

In today’s post, Mickell Carter, an editorial assistant at Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Jaimie D. Crumley about her

The Black Intellectual Traditions That Shaped Frederick Douglass

August 3, 2026August 3, 2026 Russell Crosthwait 1 Comment
abolition, black intellectual history, Black Religion, Frederick Douglass, Historical Memory

The United States recently marked 250 years since the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For this occasion, a

Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

September 10, 2024September 4, 2024 Michael Lawrence Dickinson Haiti, Haitian Revolution

“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But

Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence

September 5, 2024August 13, 2024 Sean Gallagher Black women, law, slave law, slavery

In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the

A Black Woman’s Story of Sacrifice and Survival

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Alexis Cathcart abolition, Black women

On January 4, 1861−one week before Alabama officially seceded from the Union−a 65-year-old freed Black woman named Sally Johnson, petitioned

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