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African Americans and the First Black Republic

September 25, 2024September 21, 2024 Sherri V. Cummings 1 Comment
black protest, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

It is difficult to talk about Haiti. For the past two months the island nation has been mired in violence

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Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora

September 24, 2024September 21, 2024 Christina Proenza-Coles 2 Comments
Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism

African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans

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Clotil Walcott and Black Power in Trinidad and Tobago

September 19, 2024September 19, 2024 Max Lewontin #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Black women, Caribbean, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  In June 1984 Trinidadian labor

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Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature

September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 Tanguy GIL France, literature, Louisiana

Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the

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Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

September 10, 2024September 4, 2024 Michael Lawrence Dickinson Haiti, Haitian Revolution

“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But

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