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Forging Black Identities in Slavery and Freedom: An Interview with Alex Borucki

September 2, 2016August 31, 2016 Reena Goldthree slave trade

This month, I interviewed Alex Borucki about his new book, From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río

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Dark Work: A New Book on the Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

August 30, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi capitalism, slavery

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the publication of selected

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La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery

July 6, 2016July 1, 2016 Guest Poster Colombia, Latin America

This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and

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Remembering Slavery and Freedom

May 25, 2016May 25, 2016 Christopher Bonner emancipation

What would a memorial to slavery look like? What story would it tell? What function would we want it to

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Slavery and Emancipation in New England: A Bibliography

May 22, 2016May 21, 2016 Jared Hardesty colonial America, emancipation, Historiography, slavery

Over the past few months, I have been writing posts exploring pre-modern black intellectual history. They have largely focused on

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