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CFP: Self-Liberation in the Diaspora

February 29, 2024February 27, 2024 AAIHS Editors antebellum, Maroonage, Self-liberation, slavery

From the 16th to 19th centuries, enslaved people of African descent found multiple ways to resist their oppressors and liberate

The Life of Betsey Stockton

February 20, 2024February 8, 2024 Christopher D. E. Willoughby Black women, book review, religion, slavery

Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force.

Mexican Freedom, American Slavery

February 12, 2024February 6, 2024 María Esther Hammack Black women, Butter, Mexico, slavery

In the late 1820s, an industrious Black woman from Mississippi was living in Coahuila as a free woman and a

“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law

January 25, 2024January 21, 2024 Christopher Bonner 19c, fugitivity, Resistance, slave law, slavery

This article was originally published on August 25, 2015. In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris,

Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia

May 23, 2023May 19, 2023 Karen Cook Bell race, slavery

Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced