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Online Roundtable: Robert T. Chase’s ‘We Are Not Slaves’

January 4, 2021January 10, 2021 AAIHS Editors #WeAreNotSlaves

January 11-15, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil

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The Best Black History Books of 2020

December 21, 2020March 29, 2021 AAIHS Editors

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2020 on Black History, and they

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The Black Republic: An Author’s Response

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Brandon Byrd #TheBlackRepublic, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Haiti

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

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African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti

December 10, 2020January 11, 2021 Christina Davidson #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black radical tradition, Caribbean, Haiti, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. From the outside looking in, there

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Haiti and Black Internationalism in the Twenty-First Century

December 9, 2020January 11, 2021 Shaun Armstead #TheBlackRepublic, black internationalism, Black political thought, Haiti

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American

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