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Frederick Douglass’s Radical Imagination

November 26, 2018November 28, 2018 Christopher Bonner Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, freedom, Resistance

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. Often on Sunday afternoons, a teenage Frederick Douglass

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‘The Captive’s Quest for Freedom’: An Interview with Historian Richard Blackett

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Rachel Zellars black protest, Canada, fugitivity, law, slave trade, slavery

In today’s post, Rachel Zellars, contributor for Black Perspectives, interviews historian Richard Blackett, about his new book, The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive

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Online Forum: Frederick Douglass @ 200

November 12, 2018November 26, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

November 26-30, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Frederick Douglass on

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Reclaiming the Tricontinental: Transnational Solidarity and Contemporary Struggles

November 9, 2018November 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Cuba

In a speech at the Hudson Institute on October 4, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence all but declared a new

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Making Race in British Colonial North America

November 8, 2018November 26, 2018 Elise A. Mitchell race

When confronted with three eighteenth-century newspaper advertisements seeking a missing man from Connecticut named Ishmael Mux of “a white Complexion,”

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