Search Results for: meaning of freedom

Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ and the Archive of Freedom

September 23, 2020September 22, 2020 Natasha Lightfoot #CapitalismandSlavery, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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The Black Freedom Struggle of the North

August 20, 2020August 17, 2020 Joshua Clark Davis segregation

Historians have produced a remarkable body of literature reappraising the civil rights movement in the last two decades. And still,

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Finding Freedom in Black Radical Manuscripts

July 15, 2020July 12, 2020 Jordana Cox #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalBlackTheatre, archives, art, race, theater

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in The

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Claiming Freedom in the Low Country

May 13, 2020May 11, 2020 Adam McNeil Georgia, landownership, slavery

African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number

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The Black Athlete in the Freedom Struggle

December 3, 2019November 30, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, black protest, Politics, race, sports

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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