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Distinguishing Abolition from Reform

September 24, 2020September 22, 2020 Sasha Turner #CapitalismandSlavery, abolition, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, imperialism, race, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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Prophetic Black Ecologies: Liberatory Agriculture on Beulah Land Farms

July 27, 2020July 26, 2020 Priscilla McCutcheon #BlackEcologies, Black church, Black Ecologies, black nationalism, Deep South, freedom, geography, Georgia, landownership, religion, Resistance, self-determination, slavery, South

*This post is part of our series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. “The forced planting

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Recovering the Lives of City Women

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 LaShawn Harris #politicsofrespectability, #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, freedom, fugitivity, geography, sexuality, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

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Campus Activism and Free Speech at Syracuse University

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 Denise Lynn black protest, freedom, student activism

During the fall 2019 semester, Syracuse University’s (SU) campus in upstate New York was rocked by several racist incidents including

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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Karen Cook Bell citizenship, Cuba, freedom, law, Louisiana, Virginia

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery

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