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Historicizing Freedom and Black Abolitionism

More than a year ago, I wrote about the idea of hope relative to northern black activism during the American

Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized by Britain’s ruling elites. They made their

We’re living in one of those moments that doesn’t happen often: elite universities are suddenly interested in their slave-related pasts.

In “Countin’ the Blues,” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey sings, “Layin’ in my bed with my face turned to the wall…Tryin’ to

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* As Jordan Peele’s blockbuster hit Get Out progresses, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) discovers that