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The ‘Capitalized Womb’: A Review of Ned and Constance Sublette’s The American Slave Coast

March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 Kellie Carter Jackson black politics, Black women, slavery

Recently, I was asked to sit on a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center to discuss Ned & Constance Sublette’s

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Finding Agency in Unexpected Places

March 22, 2016March 20, 2016 Jared Hardesty black politics, freedom, primary source, slavery

Ezekiel Price was a notary public in Boston, Massachusetts whose career spanned from the 1750s until the 1780s. He dutifully

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A Meditation on Rape, Rape Culture, News, and History

March 20, 2016March 20, 2016 Guest Poster rape, violence

Today’s guest blog post is written by Starita Smith, a former daily newspaper reporter and editor. She worked for the Gary

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The Early Scholarship of John Hope Franklin

January 2, 2016January 2, 2016 Brian Purnell

The famed European historian, A.J.P. Taylor, remarked that “nothing is inevitable until it happens.” John Hope Franklin, who throughout a

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Reflections on 2015

December 12, 2015December 12, 2015 Noelle Trent

Here at AAIHS, my 2015 blog postings began with a reflection on remarks made by Chief Supreme Court Justice Roger

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