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Introducing New Writers and Editors for ‘Black Perspectives’

September 2, 2019September 1, 2019 AAIHS Editors

Black Perspectives is excited to announce our return from our annual summer break. We have excellent essays, interviews, roundtables, and

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DC Jazz: A New Book about Jazz Music in Washington, DC

July 19, 2019July 9, 2019 J. T. Roane art, jazz, music, Washington DC

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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The Common Wind of the African Diaspora

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 Kevin Dawson academia, academic publishing, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, race, Resistance, slavery

Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.

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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

June 27, 2019June 26, 2019 Adriana Chira Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Haiti, nation, race, slavery

George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of

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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port

June 20, 2019June 13, 2019 Lise Breen abolitionism, Activism, black politics, black protest, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,

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