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The Empire Windrush. Source: Caribbean National Weekly.

The Windrush Crisis and Britain’s Memory Problem

May 1, 2018May 5, 2018 Adam Thomas Blacks in Britain, Immigration, police brutality, slave trade

Black Britons have occupied a prominent place in national and global politics in recent weeks. The British government has been criticized

The Capitalist Foundations of Racialization

April 30, 2018May 5, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly colonialism, economic justice, slave trade

Racialization—one process of regulating, organizing, and subjecting populations through capital and labor—is integral to and endemic in the capitalist world-system. It

Abolitionism and Slave Resistance: An Interview with Manisha Sinha and Sasha Turner

April 20, 2018April 24, 2018 AAIHS Editors Black women, Caribbean, Gender, race, slavery

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

Claiming Freedom: A New Book on the Transition from Slavery to Emancipation in Georgia

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 Keisha N. Blain economic justice, Georgia

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

British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans

April 12, 2018April 24, 2018 Sasha Turner Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, reparations, slave trade, slavery

“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in