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Freedom, Race, and Desertion in America’s Civil War

May 9, 2016May 8, 2016 Guest Poster Civil War, freedom

This is a guest post by Jonathan Lande, winner of the 2016 Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize. This annual

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Abeng and Black Power in the West Indies

October 27, 2015January 28, 2017 Paul Hébert black intellectual history, C.L.R. James, Caribbean, Walter Rodney

My interest in Black Power and post-war Black radicalism more generally grew not out of an initial interest in African-American

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Visible Fugitives

October 16, 2015 Greg Childs

Often times when students hear me lecture about the famed Brazilian quilombo (runaway settlement) of Palmares, they want to know

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Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica

October 12, 2015October 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black soldiers, Caribbean, primary source, slavery

One evening, on a road in Jamaica, a soldier belonging to the “Mulatto Company” made his evening rounds. He came

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Charlemagne Péralte and Haitian Resistance to the U.S. Occupation: An Interview with Yveline Alexis

July 14, 2015February 11, 2016 Brandon Byrd Haiti, imperialism

For the seventh part of my series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti, I spoke with Yveline

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