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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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The World That Fear Made: A New Book on Slave Revolts and Conspiracies in Early America

July 24, 2020July 23, 2020 AAIHS Editors slavery, South, white supremacy

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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The Taproot Remains: On the Life and Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines

November 7, 2019November 6, 2019 Matthew Teutsch black intellectual history, cults, Deep South, Ernest Gaines, library, literature, Louisiana, South

On an acre of land, in South Louisiana, surrounded by sugar cane fields, Ernest J. Gaines will be laid to

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The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at

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White Women Slave Owners, Economics, and the Law

July 25, 2019September 16, 2019 Terri L. Snyder capitalism, race, Race and Economic History, Racial Violence, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In a treatise published in 1681, Anglican clergyman Morgan Godwyn, who had ministered to parishes in Virginia and Barbados, recounted

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