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Enslaved Revolutionary Women: An Author Interview with Karen Cook-Bell

November 9, 2021November 8, 2021 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Gender, slavery

On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in

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Resistance Discourse of Nineteenth Century Black Intellectuals

November 5, 2021November 4, 2021 Anna Stibbe #BlackAtlantics, abolition, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, slavery

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” At the “National Negro Convention” in Buffalo of 1843, Black

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Expanding the Digital Black Atlantic

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Roopika Risam #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The essays published in the Digital Black Atlantics forum this

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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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