Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ and the Archive of Freedom
*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in
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Black history
Centering the History of Black Women in the French Empire
Annette Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire offers a bold new path for reimagining
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Black Religious Politics: An Interview with Historian Nicole Myers Turner
In today’s post, blogger Ahmad Greene-Hayes interviews Nicole Myers Turner about her new book, Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious
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Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’
The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition
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Black Women in Nineteenth-Century France: An Interview with Historian Robin Mitchell
In today’s post, blogger Annette Joseph-Gabriel interviews Robin Mitchell about her new book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies
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