Book Review - AAIHS

From Protestant Supremacy to Christian Slavery

November 20, 2018November 26, 2018 Christopher Cannon Jones race, racism, religion, slavery

Early in the morning on April 7, 1712, a group of approximately thirty enslaved individuals launched a dramatic revolt, killing

"Chained To The Hatch," 1864. Photo: NYPL Digital Collections.

Weathering the Transatlantic Slave Trade’s Final Odysseys

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Mary E. Hicks slave trade, slavery, South Carolina

The transatlantic slave trade, which endured for over 400 years, stitched together disparate, and as Sharla Fett reminds us, often

‘The Captive’s Quest for Freedom’: An Interview with Historian Richard Blackett

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Rachel Zellars black protest, Canada, fugitivity, law, slave trade, slavery

In today’s post, Rachel Zellars, contributor for Black Perspectives, interviews historian Richard Blackett, about his new book, The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive

Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography

November 13, 2018December 10, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Activism, photography, Racial Violence

Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018

Black Lives Matter: Not a Moment, But a Movement

November 13, 2018November 19, 2018 Jenn M. Jackson #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black lives matter, black politics, Racial Violence, Resistance

Though it was first created as a hashtag in 2013 as a response to Trayvon Martin’s death at the hands