The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
In a 1935 copper miners’ strike in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), historian C. L. R. James
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Black Internationalism
A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the
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Women and Emancipation: An Interview with Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri Snyder
In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder on their
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Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Robin Mitchell’s preface to Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France is extremely moving. She begins with
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The Black Republic: An Author’s Response
The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution
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