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Transness As A Category For Possibility

December 4, 2018December 7, 2018 Rachel Zellars #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, Gender

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the second chapter: ‘Trans Capable:

On the Life of Black Abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass

November 29, 2018December 7, 2018 Leigh Fought Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. “She drew around herself a certain reserve,” Rosetta

Online Roundtable: ‘Black on Both Sides’: A Racial History of Trans Identity

November 19, 2018December 10, 2018 AAIHS Editors #BlackonBothSides, Gender, race, trans identity

December 3-7, 2018 Black Perspectives,the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on C. Riley

"Chained To The Hatch," 1864. Photo: NYPL Digital Collections.

Weathering the Transatlantic Slave Trade’s Final Odysseys

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Mary E. Hicks slave trade, slavery, South Carolina

The transatlantic slave trade, which endured for over 400 years, stitched together disparate, and as Sharla Fett reminds us, often

‘The Captive’s Quest for Freedom’: An Interview with Historian Richard Blackett

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Rachel Zellars black protest, Canada, fugitivity, law, slave trade, slavery

In today’s post, Rachel Zellars, contributor for Black Perspectives, interviews historian Richard Blackett, about his new book, The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive