The Role of Violence in the Abolitionist Movement
On September 11 1851, George Ford, Nelson Ford, Noah Buley, and Joshua Hammond arrived at William and Eliza Parker’s home
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An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History
Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks
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‘A White Man Took Her’: Trauma, Loss, and Grief among the Enslaved
In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with
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Fantastic and Fatal Coalitions: Revisiting ‘Blood Syndicate’
*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In 1983, Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Stop Killer Cops: Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated
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