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CFP: Self-Liberation in the Diaspora

From the 16th to 19th centuries, enslaved people of African descent found multiple ways to resist their oppressors and liberate

October 11, 2023 to October 19, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence

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

For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a