Search Results for: abolition

Mexican Freedom, American Slavery

February 12, 2024February 6, 2024 María Esther Hammack Black women, Butter, Mexico, slavery

In the late 1820s, an industrious Black woman from Mississippi was living in Coahuila as a free woman and a

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The Early Activism of Angela Davis

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, Black women, carceral state, police brutality

On October 13, 1970, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Angela Davis in New York facing indictments for kidnapping,

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On Transnational Black Feminism

January 31, 2024January 29, 2024 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black nationalism, garvey, UNIA

Today’s post was originally published on April 14, 2017. Black women and other women of color have been historically marginalized

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“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law

January 25, 2024January 21, 2024 Christopher Bonner 19c, fugitivity, Resistance, slave law, slavery

This article was originally published on August 25, 2015. In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris,

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Why did Nat Turner “confess”?

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 Patrick Rael black protest, Resistance, South

This article was originally published on April 29, 2015. Turner sought to carry on in words the work he had

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