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Reading Practices, Civil War Archive, and the Black Family

January 9, 2023January 7, 2023 Brandi C. Brimmer #AAIHSRoundtable, #FamiliesCivilWar, Resistance, slavery

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. The Families’ Civil War:

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Online Roundtable–Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s ‘The Families’ Civil War’

January 6, 2023January 5, 2023 AAIHS Editors #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Black Family, Civil War

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s  The Families’

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The Morning After: Black Women and the March on Washington

December 12, 2022December 11, 2022 Kyle Brooks Black women, Civil Rights Movement

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom stands apart as one of the most well-known events of the modern

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“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad

December 5, 2022December 4, 2022 Julia W. Bernier Activism, slavery

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women

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Margaret Walker’s Business during The Antebellum Era

November 23, 2022November 22, 2022 Anne Kerth antebellum, Black women, Free people of color, Margaret Walker, slavery

Throughout the Antebellum era, the institution of slavery worked to strip Black women of their humanity and human rights and

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