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The Fallacy of 1619: Rethinking the History of Africans in Early America

September 4, 2017September 6, 2017 Michael Guasco colonial America, colonialism, slave trade, slavery

In 1619, “20. and odd Negroes” arrived off the coast of Virginia, where they were “bought for victualle” by labor-hungry

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Finding Toussaint L’Ouverture in Tennessee

July 20, 2017July 23, 2017 Brandon Byrd Black women, Haiti, slavery

In the summer of 1777, as musket balls flew about New York’s battlefields, José de Gálvez felt confident. The American

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Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty

March 15, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Donald Trump, Post-Civil War, reconstruction, white supremacy

At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and

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Reading the Language of Violence in the Middle Passage

March 10, 2017July 20, 2018 Vanessa M. Holden #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade, violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea “The dead are not remembered in

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Towards Usable Histories of the Black Commons

February 28, 2017March 2, 2017 J. T. Roane capitalism, Racial Capitalism

Since the 1980s, policymakers have extended the market logics of risk and profit to encompass all the basic necessities for

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