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African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti

December 10, 2020January 11, 2021 Christina Davidson #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black radical tradition, Caribbean, Haiti, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. From the outside looking in, there

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The Meaning and Significance of Haiti in African American Studies

December 8, 2020January 11, 2021 Chelsea Stieber #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Haiti, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. Of the “idea of Haiti,” historian

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“We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti For Being Black”

December 7, 2020January 11, 2021 Leslie M. Alexander #TheBlackRepublic, Haiti, Historical Memory, imperialism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. On January 2, 1893, eighty-nine

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Marronage and the Great Dismal Swamp

December 4, 2020December 1, 2020 Warren Milteer North Carolina, racism, Resistance, slavery, South, Virginia

For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a

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The World That Fear Made: A New Book on Slave Revolts and Conspiracies in Early America

July 24, 2020July 23, 2020 AAIHS Editors slavery, South, white supremacy

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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