The Black Intellectual Traditions That Shaped Frederick Douglass
The United States recently marked 250 years since the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For this occasion, a
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Meaning of freedom
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
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Afro-Descendants in the Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II: An Interview with Tacuma Peters
In today’s post, Ashley Everson, a managing editor of Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Tacuma Peters about his
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Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo
Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who
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Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature
Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the
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