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British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans

April 12, 2018April 24, 2018 Sasha Turner Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, reparations, slave trade, slavery

“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in

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Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Miami’s History

March 19, 2018March 22, 2018 Kevin C. Quin Black Queers, Caribbean, Gender, sexuality

Palm trees, ocean breezes, and avenues bursting with glowing neon signs are just a few of the things that comes

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Marcus Garvey. Photo: Caribbean National Weekly.

Marcus Garvey: A New Biography on the Jamaican Black Nationalist

February 24, 2018March 1, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Activism, black internationalism, Garveyism, Pan-Africanism

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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"Cruelties of slavery." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean: A New Book on Atlantic Slavery

January 27, 2018February 2, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, archives, Caribbean, freedom, slavery

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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François Duvalier and the Misuse of Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 2018January 20, 2018 Brandon Byrd Caribbean, Haiti, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr., violence

On the morning of April 9, 1968, the Haitian political elite joined the US diplomatic core in the Port-au-Prince Cathedral.

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