Search Results for: slavery

Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa M. Holden Activism, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, Resistance

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

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How Enslaved People Found A Pathway to Self-discovery

February 10, 2021February 8, 2021 Tyler Parry africa, religion, slavery

In 1837, Charles Ball published a memoir recounting his experience as one enslaved for forty years in the states of

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The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 Adam Thomas African Diaspora, Caribbean, Racial Violence, Resistance

In a 1935 copper miners’ strike in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), historian C. L. R. James

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A Family History of British Empire

February 5, 2021January 30, 2021 Mary Hicks African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Caribbean

“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,

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African American Print Culture: An Interview with Laura Helton

February 4, 2021January 30, 2021 Robert Greene II archives, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, library

This is an interview with Robert Greene II, the lead associate editor of Black Perspectives, and Laura Helton, whose article

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