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Slavery and Disability Discourse

In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that

The recent assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Möise and the power vacuum he left have deep roots in United States

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US

*This post is part of our roundtable on Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Global struggle is forged through mass protests, boycotts, and

In 1763, in a remote corner of the Atlantic world, enslaved people came closer than ever before to overthrowing slavery