Ida Taught Me
In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She
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Claiming Freedom in the Low Country
African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number
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Online Roundtable: Saidiya Hartman’s ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’
May 18-22, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with The Journal of African
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“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures
Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of
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Black Lives & Native Lands: Rewriting the History of New England
The study of slavery in New England has experienced something of a revival in the last decade. Given that New
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