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Tracing Early Black Intellectual Networks

In my continuing series on early African American intellectual life, today I want to examine early black intellectual networks by

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her

The recent convergence of publicized anti-black police violence, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the approaching Presidential

Last April, I wrote a post for this blog, entitled “Why did Nat Tuner ‘confess‘?” I argued that Turner’s goal

Last month, I wrote about how slaves and free blacks appropriated Euro-American languages and their ability to use them to