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Black Resistance to Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

July 5, 2018July 9, 2018 Jessica Parr Black women, law, New York, segregation

In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its

Adam McNeil

Adam McNeil is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University focusing on Black Women’s lives during

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879. George K. Warren. Photo: National Archives and Records Administration/Wikipedia.

Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July

July 4, 2018July 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, slavery

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”

Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century

July 2, 2018July 5, 2018 Sandy Placido Anticolonialism, Cuba, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Puerto Rico

In We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, historian Anne Eller cogently interprets the geopolitical shifts that

“My Brother in All the Ways That Count”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

June 29, 2018July 1, 2018 Uday Singh Mehta #JeffreyFerguson

This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on March