Denmark Vesey’s Family Legacy
This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In 1795, on
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Slave revolts
Call for Submissions: Slave Revolts in Early America
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts for an online forum
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The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy
The Denmark Vesey conspiracy transformed how enslavers viewed free and unfree men who labored in the cities and countryside of
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Black Women and the Southampton Rebellion
In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat
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How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution
African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US
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