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But even as Camper lost scholarly standing in continental Europe, scientific racists in Britain and the United States such as Robert Knox, J. C. Nott, and G. R. Gliddon went on reproducing his images as irrefutable proof of a white supremacy that Camper himself had never embraced.

Princeton University’s first graduate student, future president James Madison, brought one slave with him to campus and another to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The latter he had to free: all that talk of liberty had ruined him, a poison to the rest of the plantation. He took the former home with him.

African American co-op movement. I consider the various organizations’ agendas and strategies over time, as well as the kinds of impact cooperative practices have had on Black communities. There are lessons to be learned from the history of cooperative economic models that can be applied to future discussions about community economic development in

The Gullah Geechee worked in tandem and in mutual aid. The owners who had had them chained and stacked left them on the island on their own. Owners distanced themselves from the evidence of the fetid hold, the salt-soaked death on their skin, satisfied with the proceeds of their labor: indigo, rice, cotton. This absenteeism was common on the Sea Is

used to liberate more than 300 slaves to freedom. Sojourner Truth, Fannie Lou Hamer, and other prominent black women were empowered by their faith to become passionate freedom fighters. Faith in Jesus’ cross inspired 50,000 blacks in Montgomery (1955–56) to boycott city buses for 381 days, risking their lives in KKK territory rather than ride in hu

Dans un dernier sursaut, elle a élu deux ans avant le « Kissing Case » un nouveau président, Robert F. Williams, militant communiste, qui non seulement va engager son renouvellement militant (deux cents recrues en un an dont la majorité appartiennent à la classe ouvrière, et non à la classe moyenne ou éduquée dans laquelle la NACCP recrute habituel