Claiming Freedom in the Low Country
African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number
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Online Roundtable: Saidiya Hartman’s ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’
May 18-22, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with The Journal of African
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Landscape as Witness: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park
In early March 2020, I drove past miles of dredged canals and gangly loblolly pines toward the visitor center of
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Black Lives & Native Lands: Rewriting the History of New England
The study of slavery in New England has experienced something of a revival in the last decade. Given that New
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“We’ll Hold The Police Accountable!”: The Useful Meaninglessnesses of Liberal-speak
It has been two years since Stephon Clark was killed in his grandmother’s backyard. Two years since Rev. Al Sharpton
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