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Introducing “Black Perspectives”

December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 Keisha N. Blain

Dear readers, Thank you all for enthusiastically supporting the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). The blog has been doing

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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 2

December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 Keri Leigh Merritt criminal justice system, Deep South

This essay is Part Two of a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part

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Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration

December 9, 2016December 8, 2016 Patrick Rael 13th Amendment, emancipation, mass incarceration

We’re learning a lot these days about the historical roots of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander’s wildly successful book, The New

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Freedom as Marronage as Anti-capitalism

December 8, 2016January 21, 2017 Patrick Nichols Jamaica, marronage

On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally

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The American Revolution, Race, and the Failed Beginning of a Nation

December 7, 2016December 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Donald Trump, emancipation, law, racism, slavery

Although forms of systemic racism had certainly not gone away prior to Donald Trump’s election, that so many Americans voted

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