“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle
Though the United States has colonized Puerto Rico since 1898, when the country took the island as booty in the
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Caribbean
The Common Wind of the African Diaspora
Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.
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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World
George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of
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On The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books
The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books was first held in London, England in 1982, and
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Everything is Necessary: A New Collection of Poetry
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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