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Jacqueline Luqman
Film Review: Netflix’s ‘Descendant’ Shows Capitalism Continues to Oppress African Descendants
04 Jan 2023
The trans-Atlantice slave trade did not end with the 1808 ban. The Clotilda arrived in 1860 and the descendants of those enslaved people are impacted by that history, as are all African people in the…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nick Nesbitt’s Book, “The Price of Slavery”
18 May 2022
This week’s featured author is Nick Nesbitt. Nesbitt is Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University. His book is The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: An Act for the Abolition of Slavery [and for Compensating White Slaveowners], 1833
30 Mar 2022
The recent visit of members of the British “royal family” to Belize, Jamaica, and the Bahamas drew attention to longstanding issues and unsettled accounts concerning slavery, colonialism, and i
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Sara-Maria Sorentino
30 Mar 2022
This week’s featured scholar is Sara-Maria Sorentino. Sorentino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. Her article is “Mistresses as…