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… to slavery, and urge you, as friends of freedom, in the event of a war, to take advantage of it for abolishing … which would illustrate it better than the case of John L. Brown, in the State of South Carolina. He had a sister[,] a … ‘the self-liberated slave,’ and Mr. Buffum were to lecture on the horrors of slavery, and that they had been …

… the many centuries of Muslim experience. The Iberians, of course, could hardly have been better informed about the … slave-worked sugar plantations in the so-called Atlantic islands; a people who would soon lead the … of diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. In any event, as several of the papers make clear, the white leaders …

… at the Africans’ orders, two surviving whites sailed the slave ship east toward Africa. But at night, the whites, who had purchased the rebels, altered the ship’s course to the northwest. Following this zigzag course for … took place at a critical moment in the history of the Atlantic slave system. In 1833, Britain emancipated 800,000 …

… Douglass Book Prize NEW YORK, NY  — Christopher Leslie Brown, Visiting Professor of History at Columbia University, … The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery (University of North Carolina Press); and … The award is named for Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the slave who escaped bondage to emerge as one of the great …

… specializing in sub-Saharan Africa, colonialism, and the Atlantic slave trade. She received her PhD in History from Harvard …

… do schoolchildren learn why Columbus sought to cross the Atlantic. Hoping for an alliance with the Grand Khan of the … about the Americas. This disparity only increased over the course of the 17th century. Following the lead of their … whom he had fallen in love while serving her family as a slave. Smith’s personal coat of arms—like the one Melchor de …

… the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police.  Of course we offer such a condemnation, but we also wish to say … somewhat shorter version of the piece is published in the Atlantic: … fail us as responses. From Trayvon Martin through Michael Brown, to Freddy Gray and Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and …

… Thrace during the Axis Occupation and the Greek Civil War. A Preliminary Report … The Enemy that Never was: The … Thrace during the Axis Occupation and the Greek Civil War. A Preliminary Report Speaker: Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 … Thrace during the Axis Occupation and the Greek Civil War. A Preliminary Report …

… of York, British Parliament and the Remembrance of the Slave Trade Mari Hareide, Norwegian National Commission for … Mended Belisario, Memory, and Forgetting in the Circum-Atlantic World Michel Giraud, Centre National de la Recherche … The Transnational Remembrance of Slavery: The Dutch Atlantic Powerpoint Presentation Moderator: Laurent Dubois, …

… … 2007/2008 Nowhere to Run: Emancipation During the Civil War Thursday September 20, 2007 4:30pm James Oakes, Professor … October 29, 2007 6:00pm Mohammed Naseehu Ali, Author   A Slave No More: Reading and Discussion with the Author Monday … Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburg   The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade …