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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
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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
  • Memory and Slavery: Chico Rei, An “African King” in Brazil
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  • 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
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    Blackening the Louvre Museum: Beyoncé, Jay Z, and the Legacies of Slavery
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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
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An “Evil” West African King and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Jan 4, 2016 Ana Lucia Araujo

The classic comment stating that “Africans sold Africans” during the Atlantic slave trade is very common in online forums or classroom discussions. Commentators who bring this argument, in order to downplay the magnitude of…

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Slavery as Caricature

Oct 1, 2015 Ana Lucia Araujo

This article is based on my newest book Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in in the Tropics published by University of New Mexico Press (2015).   French artist…

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Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: The Mythology of Racial Democracy in Brazil

Jun 27, 2015 Ana Lucia Araujo

Brazil has been in the news a great deal of late, especially in association with the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The most popular images involve football, carnival, samba, sunny beaches,…

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Slavery in the Colonial North and the Philipsburg Manor

Apr 26, 2015 Ana Lucia Araujo

In the last two decades scholars made significant efforts to emphasize the existence of slavery in the US north. Despite these efforts and because scholarship takes time to reach the…

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The Ark of Return: UN Slavery Memorial to be Unveiled Today in New York City

Mar 25, 2015 Ana Lucia Araujo

  Today, March 25, 2015, is the United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, whose theme this year is Women and Slavery. As a…

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In slavery matters, numbers are still relevant

Feb 21, 2015 Ana Lucia Araujo

Numbers are not everything, but in the case of the Atlantic slave trade they reveal the importance of the institution of slavery and the size of populations of African descent…

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Finally in Brazil: Heritage Trails of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Feb 20, 2015 Ana Lucia Araujo

Historians Hebe Mattos and Martha Abreu published an excellent article on their weblog (it is in Portuguese and featured on this website in the menu Digital initiatives) about the new heritage trail…

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A New “Slavery” Museum in the United States ?

Feb 20, 2015 Ana Lucia Araujo

In a famous interview of 1989, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison pointed out that her book Beloved (1987) was a site of memory of slavery as sites of the slave…

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Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery by Adam Rothman

Feb 19, 2015 Ana Lucia Araujo

Adam Rothman’s new book Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery (Harvard University Press, 2015) brings to light the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children on…

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12 Years a Slave and the Problem of Depicting Human Atrocities

Feb 18, 2015 Ana Lucia Araujo

The problem of portraying extreme violence is part of scholarly and public debates since the end of the Second World War. After the Holocaust, whereas some scholars considered fiction an…

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