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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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Reading the Language of Violence in the Middle Passage

March 10, 2017July 20, 2018 Vanessa M. Holden #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade, violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea “The dead are not remembered in

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An Unspeakable Toll: Relentless Violence and the Middle Passage

March 9, 2017March 13, 2017 Joshua Rothman #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea In 1790, Thomas Trotter testified to

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