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Remembering Phillis Wheatley

June 26, 2016June 25, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Black women, Phillis Wheatley

In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,

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Muhammad Ali, Freedom Road, and the Legacy of Reconstruction

June 24, 2016June 23, 2016 Guest Poster Muhammad Ali, reconstruction

Today we’re featuring a guest post by Robert Bland, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University

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The Future of the African American Religious Past

June 23, 2016June 21, 2016 Guest Poster religion

Today’s guest post is from Paul Harvey, Professor of History, and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado. Dr.

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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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