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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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Remembering Slavery and Freedom

May 25, 2016May 25, 2016 Christopher Bonner emancipation

What would a memorial to slavery look like? What story would it tell? What function would we want it to

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Slavery and Emancipation in New England: A Bibliography

May 22, 2016May 21, 2016 Jared Hardesty colonial America, emancipation, Historiography, slavery

Over the past few months, I have been writing posts exploring pre-modern black intellectual history. They have largely focused on

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Marable’s Malcolm: A Revisitation

May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 Russell Rickford black intellectual history, black nationalism, Malcolm X, Manning Marable

Writing about Malcolm X can feel like stepping into a whirlpool. The further one ventures beneath the currents, the more

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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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