An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History
Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks
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Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery)
This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the
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Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo
Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who
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African Americans and the First Black Republic
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
African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans
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