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Jefferson was not a benevolent slave owner and doesn’t need any apologists Enegrecendo o Museu do Louvre : Beyoncé, Jay Z e os Legados da escravidão Blackening the Louvre Museum: Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Legacies of Slavery The Value of Enslaved Bodies: A Short Review of The Price for the Their Pound of Flesh Slave by Another Name ? Or How Evil is to Use the Term “Slave”
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Jefferson was not a benevolent slave owner and doesn’t need any apologists

Jul 6, 2018 Ana Lucia Araujo
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Enegrecendo o Museu do Louvre : Beyoncé, Jay Z e os Legados da escravidão

Jun 18, 2018 Ana Lucia Araujo
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Jefferson was not a benevolent slave owner and doesn’t need any apologists

Jul 6, 2018 Ana Lucia Araujo
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Enegrecendo o Museu do Louvre : Beyoncé, Jay Z e os Legados da escravidão

Jun 18, 2018 Ana Lucia Araujo
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Blackening the Louvre Museum: Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Legacies of Slavery

Jun 18, 2018 Ana Lucia Araujo
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The Value of Enslaved Bodies: A Short Review of The Price for the Their Pound of Flesh

Mar 19, 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo
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Slave by Another Name ? Or How Evil is to Use the Term “Slave”

Mar 16, 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo
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    Jefferson was not a benevolent slave owner and doesn’t need any apologists
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    Enegrecendo o Museu do Louvre : Beyoncé, Jay Z e os Legados da escravidão
  • Blackening the Louvre Museum: Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Legacies of Slavery
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    Blackening the Louvre Museum: Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Legacies of Slavery
  • The Value of Enslaved Bodies: A Short Review of The Price for the Their Pound of Flesh
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    The Value of Enslaved Bodies: A Short Review of The Price for the Their Pound of Flesh
  • Memory and Slavery: Chico Rei, An “African King” in Brazil
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    Memory and Slavery: Chico Rei, An “African King” in Brazil
  • Jefferson was not a benevolent slave owner and doesn’t need any apologists
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    Jefferson was not a benevolent slave owner and doesn’t need any apologists
  • Enegrecendo o Museu do Louvre : Beyoncé, Jay Z e os Legados da escravidão
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    Enegrecendo o Museu do Louvre : Beyoncé, Jay Z e os Legados da escravidão
  • Blackening the Louvre Museum: Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Legacies of Slavery
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    Blackening the Louvre Museum: Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Legacies of Slavery
  • Jefferson was not a benevolent slave owner and doesn’t need any apologists
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    Jefferson was not a benevolent slave owner and doesn’t need any apologists
  • Enegrecendo o Museu do Louvre : Beyoncé, Jay Z e os Legados da escravidão
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    Enegrecendo o Museu do Louvre : Beyoncé, Jay Z e os Legados da escravidão
  • Blackening the Louvre Museum: Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Legacies of Slavery
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    Blackening the Louvre Museum: Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Legacies of Slavery
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    The Value of Enslaved Bodies: A Short Review of The Price for the Their Pound of Flesh
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Jefferson was not a benevolent slave owner and doesn’t need any apologists

Jul 6, 2018 Ana Lucia Araujo

More than one year ago, a discussion on Twitter regarding the enslaved woman Sally Hemings (owned by Thomas Jefferson) led me to post here a text discussing how problematic is to…

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Enegrecendo o Museu do Louvre : Beyoncé, Jay Z e os Legados da escravidão

Jun 18, 2018 Ana Lucia Araujo

O vídeo da música Apes**t de Beyoncé e Jay Z reanima o diálogo sobre a escravidão e seus legados. A música é parte do novo álbum conjunto do casal Carter. Longe…

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Blackening the Louvre Museum: Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Legacies of Slavery

Jun 18, 2018 Ana Lucia Araujo

The video of the song Apes**t  by Beyoncé and Jay Z revives the conversation about slavery and its legacies. The song is part of the couple’s new joint album as…

Book reviews

The Value of Enslaved Bodies: A Short Review of The Price for the Their Pound of Flesh

Mar 19, 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo

Women History Month is still here and I avidly read during the weekend the new book The Price for the Their Pound of Flesh by historian Daina Ramey Berry. It is…

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Slave by Another Name ? Or How Evil is to Use the Term “Slave”

Mar 16, 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo

For long time now we have had this discussion on the use of the word “slave” and “enslaved” to refer to men, women, and children who had the legal status…

Book reviews

Quick Notes on Why Queen Njinga Matters

Mar 16, 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo

This is not an elaborate review, but to honor Women’s History Month, let me tell you why you should read Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen, a biography just published by Africanist historian Linda M.…

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The problem of using the term “mistress” to refer to enslaved women

Mar 1, 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo

The issue regarding the status of enslaved women as “mistresses” is generating discussion on social media, this time because of a tweet by a Washington Post‘s journalist Krissah Thompson on her…

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Meet Ona Judge: Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Feb 20, 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo

The last time I wrote a post here was almost one year ago. As February 2017 comes to an end, and I have been reading so many great books published…

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Memory as a Response to the Problem of Slavery

Jan 30, 2016 Ana Lucia Araujo

This text is based on my intervention in the final roundtable of the 2015 Gilder Lehman International Conference held at Yale University, on October 30-31, 2015. I thank David Blight and…

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Memory and Slavery: Chico Rei, An “African King” in Brazil

Jan 12, 2016 Ana Lucia Araujo

Memorializing slavery and making slavery part of official initiatives remains a problem in a country like Brazil, where slavery was outlawed only in 1888. Obstacles prevent this painful past to…

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The Value of Enslaved Bodies: A Short Review of The Price for the Their Pound of Flesh

Mar 19, 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo

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