Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World
Kay Wright Lewis’s new book, A Curse Upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World (University
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Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the Atlantic World
This is an excerpt from the preface of Andrew T. Fede’s Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the
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The Fallacy of 1619: Rethinking the History of Africans in Early America
In 1619, “20. and odd Negroes” arrived off the coast of Virginia, where they were “bought for victualle” by labor-hungry
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Uncovering Lisbon’s Forgotten History of Slavery
By all accounts, the Portuguese capital of Lisbon is a strikingly beautiful city, but—like so many entrepôt Mediterranean cities of
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Contested Bodies: A New Book on Black Motherhood and Slavery in Jamaica
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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