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Online Roundtable: Robert T. Chase’s ‘We Are Not Slaves’

January 4, 2021January 10, 2021 AAIHS Editors #WeAreNotSlaves

January 11-15, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil

The Best Black History Books of 2020

December 21, 2020March 29, 2021 AAIHS Editors

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2020 on Black History, and they

The Black Republic: An Author’s Response

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Brandon Byrd #TheBlackRepublic, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Haiti

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

Marronage and the Great Dismal Swamp

December 4, 2020December 1, 2020 Warren Milteer North Carolina, racism, Resistance, slavery, South, Virginia

For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a

Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism, civil rights, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

As the recent election has shown, anti-communism is alive and well in the United States. Donald Trump and other conservatives