Reassessing African-European Encounters
Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an
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Slavery
Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey
Chattel enslavement was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, shortly after the Dutch first settled
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Applying Migration Studies to the History of Black Fugitivity in the Antebellum Urban South
The historiography of slavery in the Americas largely asserts that Black enslaved people fled from their enslavers to places where
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An Environmental History of Slavery: An Interview with David Silkenat
In today’s post, Adam X. McNeil, a regular contributor of Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. David Silkenat on his new book,
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The Mystique of Chica da Silva
“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,
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