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On War and U.S. Slavery: Enslaved Black Women’s Experiences

November 7, 2022October 29, 2022 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Gender, slavery

The experiences of enslaved women and girls in the wars of the United States has garnered increased scholarly attention, most

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Call for Submissions: Slave Revolts in Early America

October 21, 2022October 13, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackAtlantics, #SlaveRevolts, Atlantic, Early America, Slave Rebellion, Slave Revolts

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts for an online forum

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The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology

September 26, 2022September 22, 2022 Christopher D. E. Willoughby slave trade, slavery

In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.

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Enslaved Revolutionary Women: An Author Interview with Karen Cook-Bell

November 9, 2021November 8, 2021 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Gender, slavery

On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in

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Black Women and the Southampton Rebellion

October 27, 2021October 26, 2021 Robert Colby Black women, Black Women's History, Nat Turner, Slave Revolt, slavery, Southampton

In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat

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