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Civil Rights Activist, Poet, Bookseller: An Interview with Charlie Cobb

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Activism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

This is an edited excerpt of an interview I conducted with Charlie Cobb in October 2015. Perhaps best known as

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Online Roundtable: Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea

February 26, 2017February 28, 2017 AAIHS Editors slave trade, slavery

March 6–11, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the

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The Transatlantic Journey of South Carolina Freedman James Churchwill Vaughan

February 26, 2017February 28, 2017 Lisa A. Lindsay black, Immigration, West Africa

From the eighteenth century to our own time, a range of African Americans have traveled “back” to Africa in hopes

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James Pennington’s Fight for African Slave Trade Refugees

February 17, 2017February 19, 2017 Sharla M. Fett slave trade, slavery

In the hot summer of 1860, Americans confronted an urgent refugee crisis. Over 1,400 young and destitute Africans, seized by

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Resisting Racism and Islamophobia: Lessons from Muslim Slave Narratives

February 9, 2017February 13, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel Haiti, marronage, racism, religion, slavery

The highly contested executive order that sought to deny citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries entry into the United States has

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