Readings on Transnational African American History
African American History has always transcended borders of many kinds, yet historians have not always recognized the transnational and global
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Africa
Albert Luthuli: A New Book on Africa’s First Nobel Peace Prize Winner
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Readings on the History of the Atlantic World
Several months ago, Five Books published a list of 5 books on the Atlantic World, which included some notable omissions.
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Weathering the Transatlantic Slave Trade’s Final Odysseys
The transatlantic slave trade, which endured for over 400 years, stitched together disparate, and as Sharla Fett reminds us, often
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“They’re Chatterboxes with their Feet”: Black Dances in Early Modern Spain
In his Premática del Tiempo (1628; 1648), Francisco de Quevedo berates Black African slave culture flourishing on Spanish soil. What
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