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Online Forum: Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’

September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors #CapitalismandSlavery

September 21–25, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will host an online forum on

Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’

September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 E. James West Abraham Lincoln

The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition

Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry

September 8, 2020September 17, 2020 Natalie Shibley race, Racial Violence, South, teaching

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have

The Black Freedom Struggle of the North

August 20, 2020August 17, 2020 Joshua Clark Davis segregation

Historians have produced a remarkable body of literature reappraising the civil rights movement in the last two decades. And still,

The Role of Violence in the Abolitionist Movement

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Mike Jirik slavery, violence

On September 11 1851, George Ford, Nelson Ford, Noah Buley, and Joshua Hammond arrived at William and Eliza Parker’s home