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Writing on Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

March 9, 2018March 15, 2018 Keri Leigh Merritt #MasterlessMen, poverty, reconstruction, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the

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Exposing the Primary Agents and Beneficiaries of Racism

March 7, 2018March 11, 2018 Chad Pearson #MasterlessMen, Racial Violence, racism, reconstruction, slavery, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Ta-Nehisi Coates and members of his fan club must read

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Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 4, 2018March 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the first annual Pauli Murray Book

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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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An Internationalist Vision of Black History Month

February 13, 2018February 16, 2018 Annette Joseph-Gabriel black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

Black History Month has always had an international outlook. From its origins as Negro History Week, started in 1926 by

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