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May 20, 2013 at 6:31am

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VIDEO/DVD: Return to Gorée, with Youssou N’DourReturn to Gorée, directed by Pierre Yves Borgeaud, 2007 (New York: ArtMattan Productions, 2007),…View Post

VIDEO/DVD: Return to Gorée, with Youssou N’Dour

Return to Gorée, directed by Pierre Yves Borgeaud, 2007 (New York: ArtMattan Productions, 2007),…

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May 17, 2013 at 5:40pm

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Babalu aye has the most eerie, intricate, intense and dedicated dances. Maferefun Babalu Aye.

Los bailes de Babalu Aye son los más intenso, y dedicado. Maferefun Babalu Aye, Maferefun Orisha

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20 Years of the Black Atlantic at Africa in Words: Art, Politics & Intellctual ProductionAfrica in Words is running a series of posts on Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and…View Post

20 Years of the Black Atlantic at Africa in Words: Art, Politics & Intellctual Production

Africa in Words is running a series of posts on Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and…

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May 15, 2013 at 5:40pm

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ilissAfrica now optimized for smartphones (Internet Library of Sub-Saharan Africa) →

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DATABASE: North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements
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The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project makes available…View Post

DATABASE: North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements

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The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project makes available…

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ARTICLES: Kopelson and Yingling on Archive and Press in Caribbean, U.S.

Articles of interest in Early American Studies (volume 11:2):

Heather Miyano Kopelson, “‘One Indian and a Negroe, the First Thes Ilands Ever Had’: Imagining the Archive in Early Bermuda.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal11, no. 2…

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May 14, 2013 at 6:07am

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NEWS: Harvard to Digitize 18th and 19th Century Anti-Slavery PetitionsThe Center for American Political Studies at Harvard Universityis digitizing eighteenth and…View Post

NEWS: Harvard to Digitize 18th and 19th Century Anti-Slavery Petitions

The Center for American Political Studies at Harvard Universityis digitizing eighteenth and…

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May 13, 2013 at 5:40pm

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A Checklist of John Carter Brown Library Holdings Relating to Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution, 1735-1834 →

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North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective: Sources for Teaching, Research, and General Background | A Bibliography by Ira Berlin for Creating a More Perfect Union at GMU (2005) →

Creating a More Perfect Community is a Teaching American History grant awarded to Alexandria City Public Schools and funded by the United States Department of Education. A partnership with George Mason University and the Office of Historic Alexandria, this grant is an exceptional professional development opportunity for teachers to improve their content knowledge through a year-long study.

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20 Years of the Black Atlantic at Africa in Words: Samba, Jazz, BrazilAfrica in Words is running a series of posts on Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and…View Post

20 Years of the Black Atlantic at Africa in Words: Samba, Jazz, Brazil

Africa in Words is running a series of posts on Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and…

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