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Without Exception ?

November 16, 2015 Greg Childs

In 1798, Luís Gonzaga, a free man of African descent was arrested for promoting rebellion against slavery and colonialism in

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Another symbol of the Confederacy falls

October 28, 2015October 31, 2015 Patrick Rael Jefferson Davis

Bowdoin College recently declared that it will no longer offer the Jefferson Davis Award to a student excelling in constitutional

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Visible Fugitives

October 16, 2015 Greg Childs

Often times when students hear me lecture about the famed Brazilian quilombo (runaway settlement) of Palmares, they want to know

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Graffitti and Archival Construction

September 15, 2015September 15, 2015 Greg Childs

    As a new school year gets underway, I find myself more excited about my course offerings than usual.

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Recent Scholarship in Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies: A Brief Bibliography

September 10, 2015September 12, 2015 Reena Goldthree Anticolonialism, Caribbean, Haiti, Latin America, slavery

The past twelve months have witnessed an outpouring of new scholarship on the African Diaspora in Latin America and the

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