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Black Lives & Native Lands: Rewriting the History of New England

May 5, 2020May 3, 2020 David Guzman African Diaspora, slavery

The study of slavery in New England has experienced something of a revival in the last decade. Given that New

Frederick Douglass’s Black Activism

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 P. Gabrielle Foreman #DouglassForward, Activism, black intellectual history, Black political thought, black politics, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount

January 17, 2019January 29, 2019 Chris Shell black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, Interracial relationships

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, a PhD student at Michigan State University, interviews historian Guy Emerson Mount about his chapter in New Perspectives on Black

Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality on the Frontier

January 11, 2019January 29, 2019 Jacob Jurss American West, landownership, Resistance

At the turn of the 20th century historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued, “[t]he frontier is the line of most rapid

Frederick Douglass’s Childhood of “Extremes”

November 27, 2018December 3, 2018 David Blight Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass possessed an extraordinary memory. By all