Revolving Doors of Fugitivity: Marronage and the Military
In October 1776, the governor of the Brazilian city Salvador da Bahia sent out letters encouraging municipal councils, landowners, captains
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Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive: An Interview with Marisa Fuentes
In this interview, guest blogger Emily A. Owens sits down with Marisa Fuentes to discuss her new book, Dispossessed Lives:
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Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century: A New Book on Black Girls in Literature
This post is part of a recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in
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Black Women, Slavery, and Silences of the Past
Power does not enter the story once and for all, but at different times and from different angles. It precedes
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Black Women Hustling off The Grid: An Author’s Response
Today is the final day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black
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