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Enslaved African Americans hoe and plow the earth and cut piles of sweet potatoes on a South Carolina plantation, circa 1862-3 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress)

Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’: A Blueprint for Reparations

September 22, 2020September 13, 2020 Verene A. Shepherd 0 Comments
#CapitalismandSlavery, Anticolonialism, Caribbean, reparations

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner.

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More than Diversity— A Call to Action from University of Chicago Faculty

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 AAIHS Editors abolition, Activism, black protest, boycott, education, reparations, Resistance, strike

This abridged document has been edited for brevity. The full letter can be read here. To pledge your support for

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‘Rhodes Must Fall’ and Decolonizing Education

October 1, 2019September 22, 2019 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, Black Europe, black protest, decolonization, education, empire, race, reparations

Writing in 2006, the historian Manning Marable asserted that, “The Black public intellectual must actively engage the past in such

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Enslaved African Americans hoe and plow the earth and cut piles of sweet potatoes on a South Carolina plantation, circa 1862-3 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress)

The Curious History of Anthony Johnson: From Captive African to Right-wing Talking Point

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Tyler Parry African Diaspora, archives, black politics, education, Historical Memory, Politics, race, reparations, slavery

In various corners of the internet, memes circulate about a Black man identified as “Anthony Johnson,” believed to be a

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Audley Moore and the Modern Reparations Movement

February 28, 2019March 9, 2019 Ashley Farmer #QueenMotherMoore, Activism, africa, African Diaspora, Audley Moore, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black Leaders, Black Marxism, black nationalism, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, Black political thought, black politics, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Communist Party, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Marxism, Pan-Africanism, race, racism, reparations, slavery

Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.

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