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On Freedom and Radicalizing the Black Radical Tradition

June 18, 2016December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #FreedomAAIHS, marronage

Today, Neil Roberts concludes the roundtable on his book Freedom as Marronage. We began with an introduction by Jared Hardesty

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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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Making Freedom in Colonial Antigua: An Interview with Natasha Lightfoot

April 4, 2016April 4, 2016 Reena Goldthree Antigua, Black women, Caribbean, emancipation, slavery

This month, I interviewed historian Natasha Lightfoot about her new book, Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

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On Slavery, Freedom, and Belonging

November 22, 2015November 22, 2015 Jared Hardesty black intellectual history, colonial America, slavery

Last month, I wrote a post contemplating how historians can write African American intellectual history before the American Revolution and

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The ‘Dixie Narrative’ and the Meaning of Slavery

September 16, 2015March 26, 2017 Guest Poster slavery

*This is a guest post from Ibrahim Sundiata, emeritus professor of African/Afro-American Studies and History at Brandeis University. Sundiata is

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