Uncovering Lisbon’s Forgotten History of Slavery
By all accounts, the Portuguese capital of Lisbon is a strikingly beautiful city, but—like so many entrepôt Mediterranean cities of
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Black history
Contested Bodies: A New Book on Black Motherhood and Slavery in Jamaica
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black Left Student Radicalism of the 1970s: The February First Movement
During the 1970s, Black student radicalism in the United States, which began in the 1960s with organizations such as the
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On the Spiritual Geography of Black Working-Class Washington
In 1946, University of Chicago-trained anthropologist and religionist James Sydney Slotkin conducted a course in the anthropology and sociology department
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Frederick Douglass, Real Estate Developer
Few people passing through Baltimore’s Fell’s Point neighborhood ever step onto the 500 block of South Dallas Street. The narrow
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