Search Results for: slavery

Reproductive Rights, Slavery, and ‘Dobbs v. Jackson’

August 2, 2022August 2, 2022 Jennifer L. Morgan

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In 1662, the Virginia legislature cast a

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Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire: A CBFS Interview

April 6, 2022April 5, 2022 Erik Wallenberg black lives matter, capitalism, CBFS, empire, Puerto Rico, slavery, South Carolina, World War II

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Slavery and Disability Discourse

September 16, 2021September 15, 2021 Christopher D. E. Willoughby racism, slavery

In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that

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Theorists, Strategists, and Histories of Slavery

September 7, 2021November 18, 2021 Diana Paton Black women, slavery

In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that

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Online Forum–Contested Citizenship: Legacies of American Slavery

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black politics, civil rights

August 2, 2021 to August 10, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating

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