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Slavery and the Family Tree

May 15, 2019May 14, 2019 Whitney Stewart Historical Memory, race, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, South

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history? Beyond the very real physical

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Online Forum: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #WalkerCentennial, Activism, black politics, Black women, Madam CJ Walker, Resistance

May 20-24, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Madam C.

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Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South

May 3, 2019May 6, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, racism, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

April 29, 2019May 6, 2019 Katie Knowles Black women, book review, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery

Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas, co-edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris, is a

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Toward a Synchronic Reading of Frederick Douglass

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Robert Levine #DouglassForward, Activism, Frederick Douglass, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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