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Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia

May 23, 2023May 19, 2023 Karen Cook Bell race, slavery

  Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced

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The Spanish Slave Ship Carlotta “Denounced” By a Shark

June 22, 2022August 4, 2022 Aderivaldo Ramos de Santana Black Atlantic, Brazil, Carlotta, Haiti, Historiography, Shark, Slave Ship, Spain

On September 4, 2022, we remember an important date in the history of the Brazilian nation: 172 years since the

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Deciphering the Ancestral Common Ground of Black Religion

February 17, 2022February 16, 2022 James Padilioni Jr #PewResearchForum, Black church, Black Religion, Islam, Prayer, Vodoo

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center headlines herald, “generational patterns are changing,”

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A Jubilee: Can HBCU Publications Revamp Education?

October 6, 2021October 5, 2021 Rochelle Spencer and DeLisa Harris Activism, black intellectual history, education, HBCU, Newspapers

  Thank you to the the library team at Fisk University, especially Dr. Brandon Owens and Dr. Magana Kabugi; their

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Melanesia, Creoles, and Ideas of Blackness

June 29, 2021June 28, 2021 Robbie Shilliam #QuitoSwan, Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Pauulu's Diaspora

*This post is part of our roundtable on Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Dr. Swan will be in conversation with Dr.

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