Search Results for: abolition

The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 Adam Thomas African Diaspora, Caribbean, Racial Violence, Resistance

In a 1935 copper miners’ strike in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), historian C. L. R. James

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Runaway Slaves To Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

January 28, 2021January 26, 2021 Nakia D. Parker African Diaspora, Gender, Resistance, slavery, South

In May 2020, the New York Times published a story about the discovery of three skulls unearthed from a grave

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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Lloyd Belton Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, Gender, race, Resistance

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the

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Women and Emancipation: An Interview with Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri Snyder

January 25, 2021January 21, 2021 Tyler Parry Activism, African Diaspora, archives, Black women, Gender, Resistance, slavery

In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder on their

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Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France

January 22, 2021January 20, 2021 Erica Johnson Edwards African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, race

Robin Mitchell’s preface to Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France is extremely moving. She begins with

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