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The Importance of Sarah Forten’s Abolitionist Poetry

May 8, 2018May 13, 2018 Adam McNeil Philadelphia, race, racism

Depictions of slavery in the United States have captivated audiences for centuries. In honor of the recent National Poetry Month

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Abolitionism and Slave Resistance: An Interview with Manisha Sinha and Sasha Turner

April 20, 2018April 24, 2018 AAIHS Editors Black women, Caribbean, Gender, race, slavery

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Slavery and the History of Abolition: An Interview with Manisha Sinha

March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, slavery

In today’s post, Rebecca Brenner, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at American University, interviews Manisha Sinha on

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Historicizing Freedom and Black Abolitionism

April 12, 2017April 15, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, emancipation, slavery

More than a year ago, I wrote about the idea of hope relative to northern black activism during the American

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The Missing Link: Conservative Abolitionists, Slavery, and Yale

March 31, 2017April 4, 2017 Eric Herschthal slavery

We’re living in one of those moments that doesn’t happen often: elite universities are suddenly interested in their slave-related pasts.

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