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Frederick Douglass and the Periodization of Reconstruction

April 25, 2019April 22, 2019 Doug Egerton #DouglassForward, black politics, Frederick Douglass, race, 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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The Trauma of Racial Violence in Frederick Douglass’s America

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Kay Wright Lewis #DouglassForward, black lives matter, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Frederick Douglass, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, racism

*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’s Black Activism

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 P. Gabrielle Foreman #DouglassForward, Activism, black intellectual history, Black political thought, black politics, Frederick Douglass, race, 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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The Race of Disaster: Black Communities and the Crisis in Puerto Rico

April 17, 2019August 12, 2022 Hilda Lloréns African Diaspora, capitalism, Puerto Rico, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In this post, looking at the lives of Afro-Puerto Rican coastal foragers, I problematize the “disaster capitalism” orthodoxy, to probe

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Politics, Public History, and Memory: An Interview with Niya Bates

April 17, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane Historical Memory, historical preservation, Public History, slavery

In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane interviews Niya Bates, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia and a two-time graduate of the

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