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Denmark Vesey’s Family Legacy

November 16, 2022November 11, 2022 Xavier Aubrey Spencer #BlackFamily, Charleston, Denmark Vesey, Slave Revolt, South Carolina

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In 1795, on

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The Relevance of 1619 in Black Family Oral History

November 15, 2022November 12, 2022 Colita Nichols Fairfax #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackFamily, slavery

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” The 400th Commemoration

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The Black Family, Landownership, and Tobacco Culture

November 14, 2022November 12, 2022 Kiana Knight #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackFamily, Jim Crow, race, South

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In a country

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Online Forum–The Significance of the Black Family in the US

November 11, 2022November 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackFamily, #Roundtable, Activism, citizenship, forum

November 14-21, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an online forum on the

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Olaudah Equiano’s Transnational Insights

November 10, 2022November 1, 2022 Taylor Prescott Black Atlantic, book review, Internationalism, Olaudah Equiano, Transnationalism

Few figures of the eighteenth century have captured the attention of historians, literary critics, and scholars of Africana studies as

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