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Frederick Douglass and the United States Constitution

November 28, 2018December 3, 2018 Noelle Trent civil rights, Frederick Douglass Forum, Gender, race

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. The United States Constitution has a powerful and

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Frederick Douglass’s Childhood of “Extremes”

November 27, 2018December 3, 2018 David Blight Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass possessed an extraordinary memory. By all

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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography

November 13, 2018December 10, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Activism, photography, Racial Violence

Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018

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Online Forum: Frederick Douglass @ 200

November 12, 2018November 26, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

November 26-30, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Frederick Douglass on

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‘Sexuality and Slavery’: A New Book on Intimate Histories in the Americas

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 J. T. Roane sexuality, slavery

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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