Search Results for: slavery

“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law

January 25, 2024January 21, 2024 Christopher Bonner 19c, fugitivity, Resistance, slave law, slavery

This article was originally published on August 25, 2015. In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris,

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Intersectional Critiques of the Criminalization of Black Girls

January 24, 2024January 21, 2024 Lindsey E. Jones Black women, education, Gender

This article was originally published on May 30, 2016. Twenty-first-century Black women advocating on behalf of Black girls are building

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Why did Nat Turner “confess”?

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 Patrick Rael black protest, Resistance, South

This article was originally published on April 29, 2015. Turner sought to carry on in words the work he had

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Online Forum:10th Anniversary of Black Perspectives Celebration, Part I

January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 AAIHS Editors

January 23, 2024 to February 1, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

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National Freedom Day Kicks Off Black History Month

January 18, 2024January 16, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black intellectual history, black radical tradition, freedom

In the United States, there is a history of African American holidays, festivals, and celebrations. Scholars such as William H. Wiggins, Jr., Angela

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