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Frederick Douglass’s Radical Imagination

November 26, 2018November 28, 2018 Christopher Bonner Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, freedom, Resistance

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. Often on Sunday afternoons, a teenage Frederick Douglass

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The Relationship between Blackness and Europeanness

November 20, 2018November 26, 2018 Noémi Michel African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, black internationalism, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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Readings on the History of the Atlantic World

November 19, 2018November 26, 2018 Vanessa M. Holden and Jessica Parr African Diaspora, capitalism, slave trade, slavery

Several months ago, Five Books published a list of 5 books on the Atlantic World, which included some notable omissions.

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Online Roundtable: ‘Black on Both Sides’: A Racial History of Trans Identity 

November 19, 2018December 10, 2018 AAIHS Editors #BlackonBothSides, Gender, race, trans identity

December 3-7, 2018 Black Perspectives,the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on C. Riley

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Weathering the Transatlantic Slave Trade’s Final Odysseys

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Mary E. Hicks slave trade, slavery, South Carolina

The transatlantic slave trade, which endured for over 400 years, stitched together disparate, and as Sharla Fett reminds us, often

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