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‘A White Man Took Her’: Trauma, Loss, and Grief among the Enslaved

April 13, 2020April 12, 2020 Tyler Parry Civil War, Marriage, mourning, Post-Civil War, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with

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Photographic Returns: A New Book on Racial Justice and the Time of Photography

March 13, 2020March 11, 2020 AAIHS Editors art, Black women, photography, time

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Categorization for Commodification: Racial Control in Colonial America

March 6, 2020March 1, 2020 Shaquan McDowell Historical Memory, Interracial relationships, race, racism, slavery, white supremacy

There is difficulty in formalizing the lines of the African American category: who falls within its brackets and whose history

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A Political Education: An Author’s Response

February 28, 2020February 23, 2020 Elizabeth Todd-Breland #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black women, education, education reform, organizing, teaching

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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Corporate Imperialism vs. Black (Educational) Liberation

February 24, 2020February 23, 2020 Jarvis R. Givens #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black political thought, capitalism, education, education reform, imperialism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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