Search Results for: slave rebellion

Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora

September 24, 2024September 21, 2024 Christina Proenza-Coles Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism

African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans

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Education and Liberation: A CBFS Conversation

May 8, 2024May 5, 2024 Lucien Baskin black internationalism, Civil Rights Movement, education, race

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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CFP: Self-Liberation in the Diaspora

February 29, 2024February 27, 2024 AAIHS Editors antebellum, Maroonage, Self-liberation, slavery

From the 16th to 19th centuries, enslaved people of African descent found multiple ways to resist their oppressors and liberate

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“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law

January 25, 2024January 21, 2024 Christopher Bonner 19c, fugitivity, Resistance, slave law, slavery

This article was originally published on August 25, 2015. In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris,

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Womanist Imagination and Liberation from the Politics of Colorblind Positivism

November 15, 2023October 31, 2023 Joshua Ro Bible, Black Theology, Christianity, Theology, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ In a 2018 podcast debate with journalist Ezra Klein, popular

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