The Common Wind of the African Diaspora
Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.
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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World
George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of
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Memory, Memorials, and History
“On this Juneteenth I’m on a tour being conducted by Jefferson Davis’s great grandson.” –@heirofElijah, June 19, 2019 The morning started
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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port
In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,
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Overseer Violence on Eighteenth Century Plantations
For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When
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