Book Review: Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County
Last April, I wrote a post for this blog, entitled “Why did Nat Tuner ‘confess‘?” I argued that Turner’s goal
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Thinking About the ‘X’
As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that
Read moreFree Blacks and the Haitian Revolution in Cartagena and Charleston (John Garrison Marks)
Today’s guest post comes from John Garrison Marks, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Rice University. His
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Often times when students hear me lecture about the famed Brazilian quilombo (runaway settlement) of Palmares, they want to know
Read moreThoughts about Indignation and Democratic Political Theory
I recently read Nicholas Brommel, The Time is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy (Oxford, UK:
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