British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans
“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Workers’ Rights in Baltimore
*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. In 1968, municipal sanitation workers
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Claudia Jones and Ending the Neglect of Black Women
With the onset of the Cold War and the U.S. government’s attacks on radicalism, the American Communist Party began to
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The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies
The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented
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Writing on Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the
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