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Annette Joseph-Gabriel

Annette Joseph-Gabriel is a scholar of contemporary francophone Caribbean and African literature with interdisciplinary specializations in black transnational feminisms and slavery

W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868–1963. Photo: Library of Congress.

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Bahá’í Faith

October 16, 2016October 15, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount religion, W.E.B. Du Bois

Recently the AAIHS held a workshop at the University of Pennsylvania where the contributors to its forthcoming anthology, New Perspectives

Free colored soldiers. Source: Luis dos Santos Vilhena, A Bahia no Século XVIII (Editôra Itapuã: Bahia, 1969).

Revolving Doors of Fugitivity: Marronage and the Military

October 15, 2016October 14, 2016 Greg Childs black soldiers, Brazil, marronage

In October 1776, the governor of the Brazilian city Salvador da Bahia sent out letters encouraging municipal councils, landowners, captains

Erna Brodber and Pan-Africanism in Post-Independence Jamaica

October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 Petal Samuel #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Jamaica, Pan-Africanism

*This is the fifth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

Haiti and the Atlantic World: An Interview with Julia Gaffield

October 10, 2016October 9, 2016 Reena Goldthree Anticolonialism, France, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

This month, I interviewed Julia Gaffield about her new book, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution (University