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Book Review: Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County

January 29, 2016January 29, 2016 Patrick Rael black rebellion, Nat Turner, slavery, Virginia

Last April, I wrote a post for this blog, entitled “Why did Nat Tuner ‘confess‘?” I argued that Turner’s goal

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Rethinking Early Slave Literacy

January 21, 2016January 21, 2016 Jared Hardesty black intellectual history, colonial America, slavery

Last month, I wrote about how slaves and free blacks appropriated Euro-American languages and their ability to use them to

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“Sold to Africa”: Remembering Patrice Lumumba

January 17, 2016January 17, 2017 Keisha N. Blain Pan-Africanism, Patrice Lumumba

[T]he enemies of Africa had understood. They had realized quite clearly that [Patrice] Lumumba was sold—sold to Africa, of course.

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Birmingham in Five Acts

January 14, 2016January 14, 2016 Brandon Byrd Civil Rights Movement, convict leasing, mass incarceration, South

Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named

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Abolition in the New Year

January 7, 2016January 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Absalom Jones, religion, Richard Allen, slave trade, slavery

Far more people probably know the importance of January 1, 1863 than they do the significance of January 1, 1808.

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