‘Force and Freedom’: A New Book About Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Slavery
Fugitive Slaves and the Quest for Freedom
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved
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The Radical Tradition of Student Protest
On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a
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Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
Looking upon the Wakandan sunset at the end of Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther (2018), T’Challa holds his cousin N’Jadaka
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Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals
In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a
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