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The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery

The Denmark Vesey conspiracy transformed how enslavers viewed free and unfree men who labored in the cities and countryside of

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Resistance Discourse of Nineteenth Century Black Intellectuals

November 5, 2021November 4, 2021 Anna Stibbe #BlackAtlantics, abolition, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, slavery

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” At the “National Negro Convention” in Buffalo of 1843, Black

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Haiti and Black Internationalism in the Twenty-First Century

December 9, 2020January 11, 2021 Shaun Armstead #TheBlackRepublic, black internationalism, Black political thought, Haiti

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American

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The Role of Violence in the Abolitionist Movement

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Mike Jirik slavery, violence

On September 11 1851, George Ford, Nelson Ford, Noah Buley, and Joshua Hammond arrived at William and Eliza Parker’s home

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Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition

July 20, 2020August 12, 2020 Joy James Black Power, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Resistance

In their July 2020, post “Was Angela Davis a Panther?” the Black Revolutionary Guard (BRG) asks and answers a query raised

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