Benedicta’s Cabin and the Space of Silence
On August 12, 1798- the day in which the so-called Tailor’s Conspiracy of Bahia, Brazil was discovered by colonial authorities-
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Thinking About the ‘X’
As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that
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Reviewers of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me have commented on the tension in his memoir between skepticism and
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Earlier this month, I had the great opportunity to attend the biennial meeting of ASWAD, the Association for the Study
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In 1798, Luís Gonzaga, a free man of African descent was arrested for promoting rebellion against slavery and colonialism in
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