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Photographing the Afterlife of Slavery

September 21, 2026September 12, 2026 Mickell Carter 0 Comments
#globalblackthought, photography, Visual Culture

In today’s post, Mickell Carter, an editorial assistant at Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews Vanessa Charlot about her new

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Power, Slavery, and Capital: An Interview with Jennifer L. Morgan

February 11, 2026February 8, 2026 AAIHS Editors

In today’s post, editors of Global Black Thought, interview Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan about her research and writing. Dr. Morgan, a

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Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence

September 5, 2024August 13, 2024 Sean Gallagher Black women, law, slave law, slavery

In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the

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Mexican Freedom, American Slavery

February 12, 2024February 6, 2024 María Esther Hammack Black women, Butter, Mexico, slavery

In the late 1820s, an industrious Black woman from Mississippi was living in Coahuila as a free woman and a

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Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America

May 4, 2023May 3, 2023 Christopher D. E. Willoughby antebellum, book review, disability, Gender, slavery

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple

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