Search Results for: abolition

British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans

April 12, 2018April 24, 2018 Sasha Turner Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, reparations, slave trade, slavery

“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in

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“Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika

April 10, 2018April 30, 2018 Dan Berger black nationalism, Black radicalism, self-determination

An impressive assortment of Black radicals gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence. It was not Philadelphia 1776, of course,

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2018 AAIHS Award Recipients

April 8, 2018April 13, 2018 AAIHS Editors

*The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) recently held our third annual conference at Brandeis University from March 30-31st. We recognized the

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Enslaved People and Divorce in the African Diaspora

March 31, 2018April 2, 2018 Tyler Parry African Diaspora, Marriage, slavery

Numerous books and articles analyze the concept of “slave marriage,” but other than a few exceptional works, the historical literature

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Blackness, Gender, and the Non-normative

March 28, 2018April 2, 2018 Marquis Bey black lives matter, black radical tradition, Gender, sexuality

*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making of Black Lives Matter:

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