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… Project: “The Itineraries: Knowledge, Sovereignty, and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast”   Jonathan Lande … and Runaways: A History of Black Soldiers’ Struggle for Freedom during the American Civil War”   Christopher … Bahian Recôncavo Plantations” Perspectives on Slavery and Freedom in Brazil presentation - in English , in Portuguese   …

… Contrary to the image of America as a progressive, freedom-loving people with a constitution that welcomes all, … society spending great energy to forget the story of black freedom. Let me focus briefly on this problem of the slave … that slavery had protected and civilized blacks, while freedom had gradually sent them “falling into a state of …

… inhabitants of which are distinguished for their love of freedom—a land whose every hill has been made classic by … sons—a land whose every brook and river carry the songs of freedom as they pass to the ocean—a land whose hills have nearly all been watered with blood in behalf of freedom—a land to which the slave had a right to look for …