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Ghosts of Slavery’s Christmas

James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and

This month, I interviewed Aisha Finch about her new book, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies

On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

I was invited to see Nate Parker’s dramatic retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion right before it opened to the