Search Results for: slavery

Rendezvous with Freedom

April 23, 2016April 23, 2016 Christopher Bonner Harriet Tubman

“Change for a $20” read news blurbs on Wednesday, with the announcement that Harriet Tubman will appear on U.S. currency.

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Leveraging the Law

April 22, 2016April 21, 2016 Jared Hardesty black intellectual history, colonial America

In the 1670s, an enslaved woman named Hannah appeared before Boston’s criminal court accused of stealing surgical equipment from Daniel

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On Michelle Wright’s Physics of Blackness

April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 Guest Poster blackness, feminism

This is a guest post by Julietta Hua, an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at

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Mob Economics and Lynching Narratives

April 14, 2016April 11, 2016 Guest Poster Jim Crow, lynching, Mississippi, William Pickens

This is a guest post by Jason Morgan Ward, an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. His new

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Thinking with Black Diasporic Intellectual Production

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black intellectual history, black protest, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

On April 5, AAIHS blogger Chris Cameron described five approaches to African American Intellectual History. Cameron’s approaches included intellectual history

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