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Slavery in an Age of Emancipation
Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...
In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...
Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...
In the landscape of American political history John Jay and his descendants may perhaps seem like lesser outcroppings, overshadowed by the cliff-like profiles of more prominent men. But their role in ...
Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...
ASI Book Talks are collaborative events that bring together core and affiliate faculty from Africana Studies as well as undergraduate majors for a book discussion on a monthly basis during the ...
On a hot night in August 1841, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass stood before a thousand white people inside a rickety wooden building in Nantucket, Mass. A handful of Black people appeared in the ...
The crushed remains of a dilapidated house on Route 10 in Marshville, south of Canajoharie, may look like just another rundown building. But research compiled in a book published recently by the ...
As a historian in the age of the 1619 Project and the debates over “critical race theory,” I find many of the audiences I address fall into one of two camps. Some celebrate American exceptionalism and ...
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South Korea's 'Critical Self-Contradiction'
December 18, 1865, I stand on a beach in Virginia, USA. This is the very spot where African Black people were first brought ...
When the United Kingdom abolished slavery in 1833, the government of the day paid out £20m in compensation -- not to slaves, but to their owners. What happened next to that money has been tracked by a ...
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