Capitalism and Slavery: Reflections on the Williams Thesis
The thing we call slavery and the thing we call capitalism both continue to provoke scholars with their
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Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery)
This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the
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In February 1848, angry Parisians crowded their city’s streets to protest restrictive monarchial policies. The Prime Minister resigned, the king
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This is a guest post by Athan Biss, a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of
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