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The Revolt That Almost Overthrew Slavery

April 29, 2021April 28, 2021 Bram Hoonhout black rebellion, Caribbean, slavery

In 1763, in a remote corner of the Atlantic world, enslaved people came closer than ever before to overthrowing slavery

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Mass Incarceration and the Metaphor of Slavery

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Shannon King #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons, slavery

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. In We Are Not

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The Disappearance of Eve and Sall: Escaping Slavery in North Carolina

October 6, 2020October 4, 2020 Christy Hyman Black Ecologies, freedom, fugitivity, geography, race, slavery

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Between 1829

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Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ and the Archive of Freedom

September 23, 2020September 22, 2020 Natasha Lightfoot #CapitalismandSlavery, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’: A Blueprint for Reparations

September 22, 2020September 13, 2020 Verene A. Shepherd #CapitalismandSlavery, Anticolonialism, Caribbean, reparations

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner.

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