“An Outrage”: A New Film about Lynching in the American South
This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History
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#AAIHS2017: Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History
The past year has certainly been an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). In the months
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Ghosts of the Atlantic: An Author’s Response
This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea. Slavery haunts the present. Yet, not
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Reading the Language of Violence in the Middle Passage
This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea “The dead are not remembered in
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An Unspeakable Toll: Relentless Violence and the Middle Passage
This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea In 1790, Thomas Trotter testified to
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