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Kinship and Intimacy in Black Women’s Atlantic World

January 26, 2023January 23, 2023 Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo africa, book review, Kinship, slavery, Wicked Flesh, Women

Even as more scholars of color engage with the livelihoods of those not rich, white, or male, the way Black

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Louis Congo: Ex-Slave and Executioner of Louisiana

January 25, 2023January 23, 2023 Menika Dirkson Early Republic, Louis Congo, Louisiana, Punishmnet, slavery

On November 21, 1725, African slave Louis Congo was freed and made a salaried public executioner in Louisiana by the

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Black Religious Fostering of American Civic Ideals

January 20, 2023January 16, 2023 R. Drew Smith #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, Black Christianity, democracy, Faith, Marian Wright Edelman, Martin Luther King Jr.

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Black Christians have been key agents

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John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy

January 19, 2023January 13, 2023 Thomas Cryer #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectuals, Historians, John Hope Franklin, World War II

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Since its 1947 publication, extensive literature

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James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and the Ever-Deferred Dream

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Amy Kittelstrom #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Once Africans began being forced onto

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