Black Identity - AAIHS

Rethinking Early Slave Literacy

Last month, I wrote about how slaves and free blacks appropriated Euro-American languages and their ability to use them to

It is not uncommon for AAIHS bloggers to provide syllabi of resources on a particular subject. I am diverging from

Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., a man of immeasurable courage and vision. We

[T]he enemies of Africa had understood. They had realized quite clearly that [Patrice] Lumumba was sold—sold to Africa, of course.

We here at AAIHS are getting excited for this week’s American Historical Association conference. On the program you will find