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Historical Legacies, Black Canadian Slavery, and Institutional Histories

September 22, 2022September 22, 2022 Melissa N. Shaw Black women, Canada, slavery, Universities, Women

McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver

The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery

The Denmark Vesey conspiracy transformed how enslavers viewed free and unfree men who labored in the cities and countryside of

Black Women’s Reproductive Health and Legacies of Distrust

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 Elise A. Mitchell #ReproductiveRights, African Diaspora, Haiti, reproductive justice, slavery

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn

Ecologies of Resistance: The Underground Railroad Ethnobotany Project

June 14, 2022June 13, 2022 Tony N. VanWinkle Resistance, slavery

“Gone are the century-old definitions of the Underground Railroad dominated by images of shivering, frightened fugitive slaves. Fading away are

CFP: AAIHS 2023 Conference

May 20, 2022May 19, 2022 AAIHS Editors abolitionism, CFP, Environmental Racism, health, slavery

#AAIHS2023 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Eighth Annual Conference Conference Theme: “We Can’t Breathe”: Crisis, Catastrophe and Sustaining