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Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean: An Interview with Erika Edwards

In today’s post, Ashley Everson, a managing editor of Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Erika Edwards about

From the 16th to 19th centuries, enslaved people of African descent found multiple ways to resist their oppressors and liberate

October 11, 2023 to October 19, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence

In 1763, in a remote corner of the Atlantic world, enslaved people came closer than ever before to overthrowing slavery