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The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio

March 17, 2017March 20, 2017 Nikki Taylor Gender, rape, sexuality, slavery

This is an excerpt from the fourth chapter of Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on

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Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty

March 15, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Donald Trump, Post-Civil War, reconstruction, white supremacy

At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and

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From Concentration Camps to the Senate: Black Women in the French Resistance

March 13, 2017March 16, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel Anticolonialism, Black women, France, Resistance

The role that over a million African soldiers played in World War II has garnered interest in recent years. Calls for countries

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#AAIHS2017: Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History

March 11, 2017March 14, 2017 Brandon Byrd #AAIHS2017

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

March 11, 2017March 14, 2017 Sowande' Mustakeem #SlaveryAtSea, archives, slave trade, slavery

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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