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Between the Lawgiver and the People

June 15, 2016June 14, 2016 Guest Poster #FreedomAAIHS, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, marronage

This is the third day of our roundtable on Neil Roberts‘s Freedom as Marronage. We began with an introduction by

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Slavery and Emancipation in New England: A Bibliography

May 22, 2016May 21, 2016 Jared Hardesty colonial America, emancipation, Historiography, slavery

Over the past few months, I have been writing posts exploring pre-modern black intellectual history. They have largely focused on

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The Pre-History of President Clinton’s Racist (and Antiracist) Liberalism

May 21, 2016May 20, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Barack Obama, electoral politics

About a week ago, former President Bill Clinton once again had to defend his 1994 crime bill at an event

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Summer Reading With W. E. B. Du Bois

May 18, 2016May 23, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

As part of my ongoing research on the life, thought, and history of W. E. B. Du Bois, this month

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Freedom, Race, and Desertion in America’s Civil War

May 9, 2016May 8, 2016 Guest Poster Civil War, freedom

This is a guest post by Jonathan Lande, winner of the 2016 Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize. This annual

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