Visible Fugitives
Often times when students hear me lecture about the famed Brazilian quilombo (runaway settlement) of Palmares, they want to know
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African American Intellectual History before the American Revolution
As a historian of slavery and colonial America, I have to admit I was a bit taken aback when asked
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Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica
One evening, on a road in Jamaica, a soldier belonging to the “Mulatto Company” made his evening rounds. He came
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This is a guest post by Athan Biss, a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of
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*This is a guest post from Ibrahim Sundiata, emeritus professor of African/Afro-American Studies and History at Brandeis University. Sundiata is
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