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A Telenovela, Slavery, and the Diaspora

April 17, 2016April 15, 2016 Greg Childs Brazil, slavery

A Escrava Isaura, the 1875 novel by Bernardo Guimaraes, was one of a number of late 19th century works of

Thinking with Black Diasporic Intellectual Production

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black intellectual history, black protest, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

On April 5, AAIHS blogger Chris Cameron described five approaches to African American Intellectual History. Cameron’s approaches included intellectual history

Making Freedom in Colonial Antigua: An Interview with Natasha Lightfoot

April 4, 2016April 4, 2016 Reena Goldthree Antigua, Black women, Caribbean, emancipation, slavery

This month, I interviewed historian Natasha Lightfoot about her new book, Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

The ‘Capitalized Womb’: A Review of Ned and Constance Sublette’s The American Slave Coast

March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 Kellie Carter Jackson black politics, Black women, slavery

Recently, I was asked to sit on a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center to discuss Ned & Constance Sublette’s

Finding Agency in Unexpected Places

March 22, 2016March 20, 2016 Jared Hardesty black politics, freedom, primary source, slavery

Ezekiel Price was a notary public in Boston, Massachusetts whose career spanned from the 1750s until the 1780s. He dutifully