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Abolitionism and Slave Resistance: An Interview with Manisha Sinha and Sasha Turner

April 20, 2018April 24, 2018 AAIHS Editors Black women, Caribbean, Gender, race, slavery

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Claiming Freedom: A New Book on the Transition from Slavery to Emancipation in Georgia

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 Keisha N. Blain economic justice, Georgia

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

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary Who Kept the Spirit of Resistance Alive

April 7, 2018April 13, 2018 Shireen Hassim South Africa

No other woman – in life and after – occupies the place that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela does in South African politics.

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Death and Memory From Mississippi to Chicago

March 13, 2018April 6, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Chicago, reparations, slavery, University of Chicago

My grandfather died on Christmas Eve. I never knew him, but his legend still hangs over me. Even though I’m named

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Pushing the Dual Emancipation Thesis Beyond its Troublesome Origins

March 8, 2018March 11, 2018 Adrienne Petty #MasterlessMen, poverty, slavery

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Toward the end of her valuable reinterpretation of southern slave

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