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Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo

October 7, 2024October 6, 2024 Sophia Monegro archives, Black women, Santo Domingo

Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who

CFP: Self-Liberation in the Diaspora

February 29, 2024February 27, 2024 AAIHS Editors antebellum, Maroonage, Self-liberation, slavery

From the 16th to 19th centuries, enslaved people of African descent found multiple ways to resist their oppressors and liberate

“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law

January 25, 2024January 21, 2024 Christopher Bonner 19c, fugitivity, Resistance, slave law, slavery

This article was originally published on August 25, 2015. In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris,

Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia

May 23, 2023May 19, 2023 Karen Cook Bell race, slavery

Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced

Black Women’s Resistance in Slave Rebellions

May 11, 2023May 9, 2023 Asia Thomas Uzomba Black women, Nat Turner, Slave Rebellion, slavery, Southampton Rebellion

Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden, an associate professor of history,