Search Results for: abolition

Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South

March 23, 2023March 17, 2023 Jaimie D. Crumley antebellum, Black women, Free people of color, fugitivity, slavery

The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where

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Surviving Academia: An Interview with Lorgia García Peña Pt. 2

March 20, 2023March 18, 2023 Hettie Williams black intellectual history, Gender

Today’s post is the second part of the African American Intellectual History Society’s president Hettie V. Williams’ interview with Dr.

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Black Internationalism and Haiti: An Interview with Leslie M. Alexander

March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 Lauren T. Rorie Author Interview, Black Internationalist, Haiti, Internationalism, Pan-Africanism

In today’s post, Lauren T. Rorie interviews Dr. Leslie M. Alexander, author of Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth

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Black Women and the Racialization of Infanticide

March 2, 2023March 1, 2023 Rebekka Michaelsen Black women, Infanticide, Margaret Garner, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Women

“Knowledge of the human body constituted a form of property as important – or even more important than – the

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Migrants, Reformers, and Pittsburgh’s Labor Movement

February 8, 2023February 7, 2023 Julia W. Bernier #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, labor, NAACP, Pittsburgh, Urban League

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. On January 19, 1841,

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