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Abayomi Azikiwe
African Emigration and the United States Civil War
14 Feb 2024
Through flight and rebellion, enslaved people created the conditions for their on liberation.
Eduardo Campos Lima
Brazilian Muslims Demand Harvard Return Skull of Enslaved Man Who Fought in Uprising
19 Oct 2022
Universities and museums around the world still hold human remains in their collections. Harvard University follows this discredited practice and has the skull of an enslaved Brazilian who took part…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio September 30, 2022
30 Sep 2022
The undercount of communities of color worsened in the 2020 census, the 20th commemoration of Gabriel's Rebellion at the African Burial Ground in Richmond, Virginia, and the quest for justice for…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Commemorating Gabriel's Rebellion at the African Burial Ground in Richmond, Virginia
30 Sep 2022
Ana Edwards is Chair of the Virginia Defenders Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project in Richmond, Virginia. She joins us to discuss the 20th annual Gabriel Gathering scheduled for October 10…
Steven Hahn
Slave Rebellions and Mutinies Shaped the Age of Revolution
28 Apr 2021
The Age of Revolution (1770–1850), bookended by the American and French Revolutions on the one side and the Revolutions of 1848 on the other, is widely viewed as the progenitor of the modern Euro-A
Marjoleine Kars
Reckoning With Slavery: What a Revolt’s Archives Tells Us About Who Owns the Past
10 Dec 2020
Writing one’s own history is an act of emancipation. “Former slaves organized a government and controlled most of the colony.”