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Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond

April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black protest, black rebellion, Civil War, freedom, reconstruction, slavery

Delivered at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the panel

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Teaching Maria Stewart and Antebellum Black Public Spheres

April 7, 2015 Chernoh Sesay Jr. primary source, teaching

I find that students intuitively understand the concept of the black public sphere as a “safe space” for the expression

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Easter 1942, A Reflection on the Double Victory Campaign

April 4, 2015April 5, 2015 Noelle Trent

Since this is the Easter holiday weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on another Easter 73 years

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Frederick Douglass’s Narrative and Teaching Intellectual History

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015 Chris Cameron

Frederick Douglass is widely recognized as one of, if not the, foremost black intellectuals of the 19th century. His wide-ranging

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Slave Trading and the “When” of Gender

March 15, 2015March 16, 2015 Greg Childs

In 1798, in the captaincy of Pernambuco in the northeast region of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, a young woman

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