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Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa M. Holden Activism, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, Resistance

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

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The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 Adam Thomas African Diaspora, Caribbean, Racial Violence, Resistance

In a 1935 copper miners’ strike in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), historian C. L. R. James

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Runaway Slaves To Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

January 28, 2021January 26, 2021 Nakia D. Parker African Diaspora, Gender, Resistance, slavery, South

In May 2020, the New York Times published a story about the discovery of three skulls unearthed from a grave

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Women and Emancipation: An Interview with Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri Snyder

January 25, 2021January 21, 2021 Tyler Parry Activism, African Diaspora, archives, Black women, Gender, Resistance, slavery

In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder on their

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African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti

December 10, 2020January 11, 2021 Christina Davidson #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black radical tradition, Caribbean, Haiti, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. From the outside looking in, there

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