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Slavery, New Orleans, and the Counting Blues

March 28, 2017March 31, 2017 Rashauna Johnson New Orleans, slave trade, slavery

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

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Resurrecting Slavery: A New Book on Racial Legacies in France

March 4, 2017March 6, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi colonialism, France, racism, slavery, white supremacy

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Online Roundtable: Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea

February 26, 2017February 28, 2017 AAIHS Editors slave trade, slavery

March 6–11, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the

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Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas

December 23, 2016April 21, 2017 Yesenia Barragan Christmas, Colombia, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman

It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in

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Ghosts of Slavery’s Christmas

December 22, 2016December 20, 2017 Brandon Byrd Christmas, slavery

James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and

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