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Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Dan Berger black radical tradition, Politics, Resistance, Trumpism

“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it

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The Transatlantic Journey of South Carolina Freedman James Churchwill Vaughan

February 26, 2017February 28, 2017 Lisa A. Lindsay black, Immigration, West Africa

From the eighteenth century to our own time, a range of African Americans have traveled “back” to Africa in hopes

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A Mind to Stay: A New Book on Black Landowners

February 18, 2017February 20, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black, Deep South, slavery, South

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

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State Violence and the Canudos Massacre in Brazil

February 18, 2017February 20, 2017 Greg Childs Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, freedom, marronage

In April of 1897, General Artur Oscar de Andrade Guimarães began preparing for an expedition that would carry he and

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James Pennington’s Fight for African Slave Trade Refugees

February 17, 2017February 19, 2017 Sharla M. Fett slave trade, slavery

In the hot summer of 1860, Americans confronted an urgent refugee crisis. Over 1,400 young and destitute Africans, seized by

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