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Enslaved African Americans hoe and plow the earth and cut piles of sweet potatoes on a South Carolina plantation, circa 1862-3 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress)

Mentha Morrison: A Story of Debt Peonage in Jim Crow Georgia

October 4, 2018October 8, 2018 La Toya Tanisha Francis and Patrick Rael black politics, Black women, Jim Crow, racism, South

Mentha Morrison wanted her husband back. The problem was not domestic, it was legal. Jackson Morrison owed the state of

Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College

October 4, 2018October 8, 2018 Michael David Cohen black intellectual history, Jim Crow, race

In 1911, Richard Greener was introduced to an audience as “‘the first colored graduate of Harvard,’ ‘ex-Consul to Russia,’ and ‘the

Online Forum: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee

October 1, 2018October 17, 2018 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, police violence, racism, Resistance, Unseen Light

October 8-12, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online forum based

Silence and the Inner Lives of Black Nationalist Women

September 26, 2018October 1, 2018 Brandon Byrd archives, black nationalism, black women's internationalism, Racial Violence, Set the World on Fire, sexual violence

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, Celia Jane Allen,

Black Nationalist Women’s Political and Intellectual Labor

September 25, 2018October 1, 2018 Kennetta Hammond Perry Amy Ashwood Garvey, black nationalism, black women's internationalism, Set the World on Fire

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire How does our historical understanding