Search Results for: abolition

Why did Nat Turner “confess”?

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 Patrick Rael black protest, Resistance, South

This article was originally published on April 29, 2015. Turner sought to carry on in words the work he had

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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State

November 21, 2023December 1, 2023 Frances O'Shaughnessy Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through

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A Womanist Dancing Mind in Wilderness Archives

November 16, 2023October 29, 2023 Jaimie D. Crumley #WomanistTheology, archives, black feminism, Womanism, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ To enter the archive as a historian who studies the

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Maria W. Stewart and a Womanist Theological Tradition

November 13, 2023October 30, 2023 Amber M. Neal-Stanley #WomanistTheology, Black women, religion, Womanism, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.” Anticipation filled the room as attendees gathered at Franklin Hall

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Remembering Reverend Annie Rebecca Woodbey

November 8, 2023October 31, 2023 Charles Holm Black women, Gender, religion

The leading Black member of the Socialist Party of America (SPA) in the first decade of the twentieth century, Rev.

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