African Americans and the State Militia
What is the historical relationship between African Americans and the state militia? Today, some may believe the militia to be
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citizenship
Online Roundtable-Adam Lee Cilli’s ‘Canaan, Dim and Far’
February 6–10, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan,
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Online Forum–The Significance of the Black Family in the US
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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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery
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