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We Are Not Slaves — An Author’s Response

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Robert T. Chase #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, Gender, Jim Crow, oral history, prisons, race, racism, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery, violence, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. On Friday, January 15, at 12noon

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Mass Incarceration and the Metaphor of Slavery

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Shannon King #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons, slavery

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. In We Are Not

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Women’s Experiences during the American Civil War

January 8, 2021January 3, 2021 Robert Colby Black women, book review, Civil War, Gender, slavery

In the winter of 1863 and 1864, with the Civil War entering its third year, two women living in Southeastern

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The Best Black History Books of 2020

December 21, 2020March 29, 2021 AAIHS Editors

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2020 on Black History, and they

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The Black Republic: An Author’s Response

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Brandon Byrd #TheBlackRepublic, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Haiti

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

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