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… their legacy. There are many stories about Connecticut’s enslaved and free African Americans waiting to be uncovered … It’s important to remember that many towns had almost no enslaved population but deep connections to enslavement …

… forward by violent war between enslavers and those they enslaved. Jessica Marie Johnson’s “Wicked Flesh” powerfully … River,” Marjoleine Kars treats the 1763-64 rebellion of enslaved Africans in the Dutch colony of Berbice with striking …

… Kim Burnett and Sophia Murphy International agricultural commodity trade is central to the livelihoods of millions of … As the notion of food sovereignty gains traction among governments and among civil society organizations … held in 2007 when the Canadians who participated in that event came back to home committed to working together to …

… documentation of the Hopewell Church: “The Tie that Binds: Enslaved and Free Baptists in the Heart of the Alabama Black … Studies, University of Brighton, UK. Project: “ ‘Liberated Africans’, Indenture and Resistance in the British Caribbean … Confederate Refugees to Texas, 1862-1866”   Ahmed Reid , Assistant Professor, Bronx Community College of City …

… arrival of Portuguese colonizers to the coasts of Brazil. Among the enslaved peoples that these colonizers brought from Africa and Iberia, there were Muslim enslaved individuals who, feeling proud in their belief in …

… In 1994, I began to research my book Slaves in the Family. Among the thousands once enslaved by my family in South Carolina, there was one man, … to search for descendants of the people my family had enslaved, and on a gamble I telephoned the families named …

… and emphasizes that a “perpetual state of war between the enslaved and the planter class” was central to these long, … River,” Marjoleine Kars treats the 1763-64 rebellion of enslaved Africans in the Dutch colony of Berbice with striking …

… of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among Native American and Euro-American communities … portrays and analyzes forms of slavery and captivity among the Indians and Spanish that differed markedly from the … Harris (University of Chicago Press), a book dealing with, among other subjects, the African Burial Ground unearthed in …

… eighteenth century have noted the royalism expressed by enslaved people of African descent. Such scholars have tended to focus their attention upon those enslaved people who made royalism central to their acts of … Revolutions. Few scholars, however, have studied those enslaved and free blacks whose royalism led them to work in …