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The Life of Betsey Stockton

February 20, 2024February 8, 2024 Christopher D. E. Willoughby Black women, book review, religion, slavery

Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force.

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Philadelphia’s ‘Black Shining Prince’

February 13, 2024February 9, 2024 Menika Dirkson Activism, education, Philadelphia

Securely tucked away in the Print Department of The Library Company of Philadelphia’s collection of over 100,000 photographs, maps, drawings,

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National Freedom Day Kicks Off Black History Month

January 18, 2024January 16, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black intellectual history, black radical tradition, freedom

In the United States, there is a history of African American holidays, festivals, and celebrations. Scholars such as William H. Wiggins, Jr., Angela

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Convict Leasing in the Family

January 17, 2024January 16, 2024 Menika Dirkson carceral state, mass incarceration, racism, South

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

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The Best Black History Books of 2023

December 11, 2023December 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors aaihs

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2023 on Black History, and they

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