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The Black Convention Movement and Black Politics in Nineteenth-Century America

October 18, 2018November 1, 2018 Stephen Robinson black politics, civil rights, Politics, race

African American leaders throughout the nineteenth century recognized the significance of creating and sustaining national organizations that were built upon

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Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, reparations, slave trade, slavery

Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,

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Slavery and Memory in Charleston, South Carolina

October 11, 2018October 17, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Resistance, slavery, South

The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not

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Enslaved People in Eighteenth-century Britain: An Interview with Nelson Mundell

October 10, 2018October 17, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, archives, Race and Economic History, research, slavery

In today’s post, Keisha N. Blain, Senior Editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Nelson Mundell about the new online database, Runaway Slaves

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‘The Bone and Sinew of the Land’: An Interview with Historian Anna-Lisa Cox

October 9, 2018October 18, 2018 Adam McNeil landownership, slavery

In today’s post, blogger Adam McNeil interviews Anna-Lisa Cox about her new book, The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s

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