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Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July

July 4, 2018July 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, slavery

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”

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Black Women, History, and the Democratic Party

July 3, 2018July 9, 2018 Millington Bergeson-Lockwood Activism, black politics, Black women, electoral politics, Jim Crow

On May 30, 2018, Axios published an article announcing, “Black women feel slighted by the Democrats.” The article explains how African

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Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century

July 2, 2018July 5, 2018 Sandy Placido Anticolonialism, Cuba, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Puerto Rico

In We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, historian Anne Eller cogently interprets the geopolitical shifts that

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The African Diaspora in Europe Today

June 15, 2018June 23, 2018 Stephen Small African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Black German, Blacks in Britain, Germany, race

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means

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Haitian Writer Baron de Vastey and Black Atlantic Humanism: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut

June 4, 2018June 16, 2018 Julia Gaffield black intellectual history, blackness, freedom, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, slavery

In today’s post, Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, interviews Marlene L. Daut on her new book Baron

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