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When Slaves Go on Strike: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction 80 Years Later

December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, black politics, Politics, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

Slaves freed themselves.  With this majestic assertion in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois all but cemented Black Reconstruction as one of

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Mastering the Master’s Language

December 22, 2015December 21, 2015 Jared Hardesty black intellectual history, colonial America, slavery

In my previous two posts, I have made an attempt to better understand early African American intellectual history, first providing

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Benedicta’s Cabin and the Space of Silence

December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 Greg Childs black rebellion, Black women, Brazil

On August 12, 1798- the day in which the so-called Tailor’s Conspiracy of Bahia, Brazil was discovered by colonial authorities-

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Thinking About the ‘X’

December 12, 2015December 14, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Afrxlatinidad, Caribbean, colonial America, empire, Latin America, slave trade, slavery

As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that

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American Dreaming at the Beginning of the United States

December 8, 2015December 7, 2015 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black politics, black protest, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Reviewers of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me have commented on the tension in his memoir between skepticism and

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