Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July
*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of
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Uncovering Lisbon’s Forgotten History of Slavery
By all accounts, the Portuguese capital of Lisbon is a strikingly beautiful city, but—like so many entrepôt Mediterranean cities of
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Contested Bodies: A New Book on Black Motherhood and Slavery in Jamaica
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The Environment as Freedom: A Decolonial Reimagining
“The environmental movement is, in my view, the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world” said Myron
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Black Left Student Radicalism of the 1970s: The February First Movement
During the 1970s, Black student radicalism in the United States, which began in the 1960s with organizations such as the
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