Post-war Representations of British Caribbean Food Markets
The proverbial “you are what you eat” suggests that what someone consumes is indicative of their overall health and their
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Clotil Walcott and Black Power in Trinidad and Tobago
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.” In June 1984 Trinidadian labor
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Online Roundtable–Kaysha Corinealdi’s ‘Panama in Black’
May 29–June 2, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Kaysha
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The Revolt That Almost Overthrew Slavery
In 1763, in a remote corner of the Atlantic world, enslaved people came closer than ever before to overthrowing slavery
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The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
In a 1935 copper miners’ strike in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), historian C. L. R. James
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