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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

June 27, 2019June 26, 2019 Adriana Chira Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Haiti, nation, race, slavery

George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of

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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port

June 20, 2019June 13, 2019 Lise Breen abolitionism, Activism, black politics, black protest, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,

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Frederick Douglass’s Life and Labors

May 29, 2019May 21, 2019 Christopher Bonner Activism, black politics, black protest, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

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Toward a Synchronic Reading of Frederick Douglass

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Robert Levine #DouglassForward, Activism, Frederick Douglass, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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Frederick Douglass and a Diplomacy of Blackness

April 23, 2019April 22, 2019 Ronald Angelo Johnson #DouglassForward, Diplomacy, Frederick Douglass, Haiti

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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