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Introduction to “Digital Black Atlantics” Roundtable

November 1, 2021November 4, 2021 Rachel Anne Gillett #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackAtlantics, black internationalism, slavery, teaching

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” In recent years the rise of digital humanities has become

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Black Women, Self-Making, and Liberty

October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 Ashley Everson Black women, slavery

Historian Tamika Nunley introduces At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery and Shifting Identities in Washington D.C. with the anecdote

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Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History

October 7, 2021October 6, 2021 Stephen G. Hall academia, black intellectual history, Black Power, Black Reconstruction, Higher education

African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,

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Slavery and Disability Discourse

September 16, 2021September 15, 2021 Christopher D. E. Willoughby racism, slavery

In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that

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Dr. Carlos E. Russell and the Origins of Black Solidarity Day

September 14, 2021September 13, 2021 Kaysha Corinealdi black internationalism, black protest, Pan-Africanism

  A young Black woman demonstrator at a rally at the Capitol protests voting rights limitations contained in bills written

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