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The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio

March 17, 2017March 20, 2017 Nikki Taylor Gender, rape, sexuality, slavery

This is an excerpt from the fourth chapter of Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on

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#AAIHS2017: Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History

March 11, 2017March 14, 2017 Brandon Byrd #AAIHS2017

The past year has certainly been an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). In the months

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The Moral Challenge of the Middle Passage

March 6, 2017March 10, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade

This is the introduction to our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea The field of Middle Passage Studies

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Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Dan Berger black radical tradition, Politics, Resistance, Trumpism

“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it

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Online Roundtable: Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea

February 26, 2017February 28, 2017 AAIHS Editors slave trade, slavery

March 6–11, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the

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