Search Results for: meaning of freedom

Overseer Violence on Eighteenth Century Plantations

June 5, 2019May 24, 2019 Robert D. Bland book review, Racial Violence, slavery, South

For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When

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Online Forum: What is African American Intellectual History?

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 AAIHS Editors #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, Black political thought, intellectual

June 10-14, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum titled “What is

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The Racial Geography of Universities

June 3, 2019May 30, 2019 Celeste Henery black intellectual history, black politics, education, geography, pedagogy, race, Resistance, teaching

What does it mean to learn how to read a place? This question silently guides the Racial Geography Tour of

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Frederick Douglass’s Life and Labors

May 29, 2019May 21, 2019 Christopher Bonner Activism, black politics, black protest, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

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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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