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Fugitive Slaves and the Quest for Freedom

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Jessica Parr fugitivity, law, Resistance, slavery

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved

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Them Goon Rules: A New Book On Radical Black Feminism

January 18, 2019January 29, 2019 J. T. Roane black feminism, Black Queers, Black Studies, sexuality

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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‘The Struggle is Eternal’: An Interview with Joseph R. Fitzgerald

January 14, 2019January 29, 2019 Ashley Farmer Activism, biography, Black Power, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow

In today’s post, Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of

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Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song

January 10, 2019January 29, 2019 Matthew Teutsch film, literature, slave trade, slavery

Looking upon the Wakandan sunset at the end of Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther (2018), T’Challa holds his cousin N’Jadaka

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Rhodes Must Fall: A New Book on the Oxford Student Movement

January 2, 2019January 29, 2019 Keisha N. Blain Activism, decolonization, race, Resistance, South Africa, student activism, white supremacy

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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