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Campus Activism and Free Speech at Syracuse University

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 Denise Lynn black protest, freedom, student activism

During the fall 2019 semester, Syracuse University’s (SU) campus in upstate New York was rocked by several racist incidents including

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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Karen Cook Bell citizenship, Cuba, freedom, law, Louisiana, Virginia

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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Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution

October 16, 2019October 9, 2019 Adam McNeil black soldiers, capitalism, freedom, military, race, Racial Capitalism, slavery

On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she

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“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle

August 2, 2019July 28, 2019 Dan Berger Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, black protest, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, Politics, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, Social Movements

Though the United States has colonized Puerto Rico since 1898, when the country took the island as booty in the

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Frederick Douglass’s Radical Imagination

November 26, 2018November 28, 2018 Christopher Bonner Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, freedom, Resistance

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. Often on Sunday afternoons, a teenage Frederick Douglass

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