Reassessing African-European Encounters
Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an
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Black Atlantic
Olaudah Equiano’s Transnational Insights
Few figures of the eighteenth century have captured the attention of historians, literary critics, and scholars of Africana studies as
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Paddington Bear and Black British Migration Politics
This year, the United Kingdom celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee, acknowledging the achievement of a billionaire remaining alive for
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The Spanish Slave Ship Carlotta “Denounced” By a Shark
On September 4, 2022, we remember an important date in the history of the Brazilian nation: 172 years since the
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Resistance Discourse of Nineteenth Century Black Intellectuals
*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” At the “National Negro Convention” in Buffalo of 1843, Black
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