Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronage, Slave Resistance, and More!
New Books in African American Studies
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The History of Black Resistance in the Caribbean
The marinasmage piece comes into existence in a latin american history seminar led by doctor joshua nadl. It was based on the county archives in north carolina from the late eighteenth century to the 18 forties. A, and i found as i read through stealing a little freedom, that the enslavers who were advertising for people who ran away pretty much suspected, or almost knew where these folks were going. But then there was another refrain that it seemed to me that most scholars had ignored, lurking about the neighborhood. And so that's how i began, i really became a story of moving from the sort of questions that an undergraduate and an early master student
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