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A New Book on Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790-1848

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 AAIHS Editors economic history, Jamaica, slavery

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Prophetic Black Ecologies: Liberatory Agriculture on Beulah Land Farms

July 27, 2020July 26, 2020 Priscilla McCutcheon #BlackEcologies, Black church, Black Ecologies, black nationalism, Deep South, freedom, geography, Georgia, landownership, religion, Resistance, self-determination, slavery, South

*This post is part of our series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. “The forced planting

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The World That Fear Made: A New Book on Slave Revolts and Conspiracies in Early America

July 24, 2020July 23, 2020 AAIHS Editors slavery, South, white supremacy

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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The Bond of Live Things Everywhere: What Black Nature Might Look Like

July 21, 2020July 20, 2020 Roshad Demetrie Meeks #BlackEcologies, Black Studies, blackness, environment, literature, poetry

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. What does

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Black Theatre Manuscripts as an Archive of Black Radicalism–An Author’s Response

July 17, 2020July 12, 2020 Kate Dossett #RadicalBlackTheatre, art, theater

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in The

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