Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas
It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in
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African diaspora
The American Colonization Society: 200 Years of the “Colonizing Trick”
Two hundred years ago this week, dozens of the nation’s most powerful men met in the Davis Hotel in Washington
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Black Europe: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
Co-authored by Kennetta Hammond Perry and Kira Thurman On the cover of the October 6 issue of Tip Magazine, a
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“Mothers of Pan-Africanism”: An Interview with Ashley Farmer
In today’s post, Azmar K. Williams, an editorial assistant of AAIHS, interviews Ashley D. Farmer about her recent article in
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Gender, Slavery, and the Archive in Cuba: An Interview with Aisha Finch
This month, I interviewed Aisha Finch about her new book, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies
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