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Denmark Vesey’s Family Legacy

November 16, 2022November 11, 2022 Xavier Aubrey Spencer #BlackFamily, Charleston, Denmark Vesey, Slave Revolt, South Carolina

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In 1795, on

The Black Family, Landownership, and Tobacco Culture

November 14, 2022November 12, 2022 Kiana Knight #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackFamily, Jim Crow, race, South

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In a country

Online Forum–The Significance of the Black Family in the US

November 11, 2022November 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackFamily, #Roundtable, Activism, citizenship, forum

November 14-21, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an online forum on the

Olaudah Equiano’s Transnational Insights

November 10, 2022November 1, 2022 Taylor Prescott Black Atlantic, book review, Internationalism, Olaudah Equiano, Transnationalism

Few figures of the eighteenth century have captured the attention of historians, literary critics, and scholars of Africana studies as

Colluding to Cripple the National Negro Labor Council

November 9, 2022November 7, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky Black radicalism, Communism, CPUSA, labor, Red Scare

In late October 1951, one of the most important African American trade union initiatives in U.S. history was launched. “The