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Re-Writing Black Gendered Stories

April 17, 2018April 21, 2018 Celeste Henery black feminism, Black women, blackness, Gender

For some years, I’ve written social histories of Black men on death row. The objective is to provide a social

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Claiming Freedom: A New Book on the Transition from Slavery to Emancipation in Georgia

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 Keisha N. Blain economic justice, Georgia

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

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Free the Beaches: A New Book on the Fight for Racial Equality in Connecticut

April 14, 2018April 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain civil rights, economic justice, environment, landownership, 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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Online Roundtable: Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 AAIHS Editors #RemakingBlackPower

April 23-27, 2018 Black Perspectives is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights (JCHR)* to host a roundtable on Ashley D.

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British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans

April 12, 2018April 24, 2018 Sasha Turner Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, reparations, slave trade, slavery

“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in

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