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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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Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero: An Interview with Mitch Kachun

May 30, 2018June 5, 2018 Stephen G. Hall Historical Memory, Resistance

In today’s post, historian Stephen G. Hall, Fellow at the National Humanities Center, interviews Mitch Kachun on his new book First Martyr of

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Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

May 18, 2018May 22, 2018 Sasha Turner Civil War, landownership, slavery

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names

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