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Prophets and Religious Radicals: An Interview with Albert Raboteau

January 2, 2017January 4, 2017 Chris Cameron Martin Luther King Jr.

This month I had the opportunity to interview Albert J. Raboteau about his new book, American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals

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Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas

December 23, 2016April 21, 2017 Yesenia Barragan Christmas, Colombia, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman

It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in

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Ghosts of Slavery’s Christmas

December 22, 2016December 20, 2017 Brandon Byrd Christmas, slavery

James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and

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The American Colonization Society: 200 Years of the “Colonizing Trick”

December 22, 2016January 2, 2017 Nicholas Guyatt black nationalism

Two hundred years ago this week, dozens of the nation’s most powerful men met in the Davis Hotel in Washington

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A Compact for the Good of America? Slavery and the Three-Fifths Compromise, Part II

December 20, 2016December 19, 2016 Patrick Rael Electoral College, emancipation

This is the second part of a two-part survey on the Electoral College, race, and slavery. This post explores the

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