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Introduction to “Digital Black Atlantics” Roundtable

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” In recent years the rise of digital humanities has become

In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat

Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in

Historian Tamika Nunley introduces At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery and Shifting Identities in Washington D.C. with the anecdote

In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that