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Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery

March 5, 2018March 11, 2018 Jessica Parr #MasterlessMen, capitalism, Politics, racism, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians

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Slavery and the History of Abolition: An Interview with Manisha Sinha

March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, slavery

In today’s post, Rebecca Brenner, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at American University, interviews Manisha Sinha on

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Black Love as Activism

February 28, 2018March 3, 2018 Nicole Jackson Activism, black, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, Resistance

Last year was incredibly difficult. There was something that seemed more painful than usual about the deluge of the twenty-four-hour

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Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”

February 26, 2018March 11, 2018 AAIHS Editors #MasterlessMen, slavery

March 5-9, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor

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Race, Religion and Radicalism: King and Du Bois

February 22, 2018March 1, 2018 Edward Carson #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. On the occasion of a dual anniversary—the year we

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