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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 6h

Too often world historians use “Afro-Eurasia” with a hyphen. That hyphen has an ugly history. It’s time to start using Afrouerasia.
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The Problem with Hyphenating Afroeurasia

Hyphens suggest otherness; Afroeurasia has a long interconnected history

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 4d

New post on global feminism and its support for internationalism between the world wars
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“All Women Throughout the World”: Global Feminism and Internationalism, 1900-1950

Discussion of teaching global feminism in the first half of the 1900s

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 4d

I include some excellent excerpts of Asian women challenging European imperialism

Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 4d

New post on global feminism and its support for internationalism between the world wars
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“All Women Throughout the World”: Global Feminism and Internationalism, 1900-1950

Discussion of teaching global feminism in the first half of the 1900s

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 14d

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Everyone should know about the Haitian Revolution - here are five resources for learning more or for classroom use
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Five Excellent Resources for Teaching or Learning about the Haitian Revolution

Learn more about the significance and legacies of the Haitian Revolution

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 14d

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Everyone should know about the Haitian Revolution - here are five resources for learning more or for classroom use
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#histodons
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Five Excellent Resources for Teaching or Learning about the Haitian Revolution

Learn more about the significance and legacies of the Haitian Revolution

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 19d

What happens when we look beyond Wollstonecraft, Gouges, & Stanton? Other early “feminists” saw the fight for women’s rights connected to other issues.

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 19d

New post about teaching global feminism between 1750 & 1850
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“You Will Never Stop The Emancipation of Women”: Teaching Global Feminism in the Age of Revolutions, c.1750 - c.1850

Teaching the early development of global feminism from 1750 to 1850

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Bram Hubbell @bramhubbell.com · 21d

Last week I wrote about the causes of the Haitian Revolution and got lots of great feedback. Thanks 🙏

I also had a couple of sources I left out and wanted to share.
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The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution

Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 24d

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 23d

Teaching global feminism in world history is like teaching resistance by enslaved
Africans or colonized peoples. It should be our default approach. Women (and a few men) have consistently challenged patriarchy and pushed for greater equality.
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“Souls are neither Male nor Female”: Teaching Global Feminism in World History, c.1750 to Present

Discussion of teaching global feminism from 1750 to present

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 26d

New post!
I discuss how Marlene Daut’s new book on Henry Christophe and Julia Gaffield’s book on Jean-Jacques Dessalines are helpful to world history courses.
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“Astonish the World”: Teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe

Discussion of teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 28d

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Too often students assume enslaved Africans revolted on Saint-Domingue because they were inspired by the Enlightenment or the other Atlantic Revolutions. They didn't.
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The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution

Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 27d

Guess what I’m writing about in tomorrow’s post 😉

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 28d

Love to see this idea translated for teachers! It’s something Haitians, Carolyn Fick, and I have emphasized for for years, even as textbooks add the Haitian Rev by making it a product of “the Enlightenment“ or the French Rev.

Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 28d

New post!
Too often students assume enslaved Africans revolted on Saint-Domingue because they were inspired by the Enlightenment or the other Atlantic Revolutions. They didn't.
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www.liberatingnarratives.com/enlightenmen...

The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution

Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them

www.liberatingnarratives.com

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 28d

Good point. You don't need to read philosophy in order to understand the person enslaving you is "bad" and should be stopped.

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 28d

great post today: "European Enlightenment ideas did circulate in the Atlantic World, but so did African ideas. Europeans didn’t have a monopoly on the concept of liberty."

Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 28d

New post!
Too often students assume enslaved Africans revolted on Saint-Domingue because they were inspired by the Enlightenment or the other Atlantic Revolutions. They didn't.
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www.liberatingnarratives.com/enlightenmen...

The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution

Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them

www.liberatingnarratives.com

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 28d

And Medium
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The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution

Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 28d

You can now also read free posts on Substack
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The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution

Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · 28d

New post!
Too often students assume enslaved Africans revolted on Saint-Domingue because they were inspired by the Enlightenment or the other Atlantic Revolutions. They didn't.
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www.liberatingnarratives.com/enlightenmen...

The Enlightenment Didn’t Cause the Haitian Revolution

Enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had many reasons to revolt... the Enlightenment wasn't one of them

www.liberatingnarratives.com

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · Sep 5

New post! I discuss how we can teach the influence of African women on the slave trade using Crispina Peres. I draw heavily on the work of Toby Green.
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“A Single Black Woman”: African Women and the Portuguese Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century West Africa

Teaching how African women influenced the slave trade in seventeenth-century West Africa

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · Sep 5

New post! I discuss how we can teach the influence of African women on the slave trade using Crispina Peres. I draw heavily on the work of Toby Green.
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“A Single Black Woman”: African Women and the Portuguese Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century West Africa

Teaching how African women influenced the slave trade in seventeenth-century West Africa

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · Sep 1

There were also a lot of British slave owners living in Bahia that were affected by this uprising

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · Aug 31

New post about teaching the 1835 Malê Revolt in Brazil. It was the largest urban slave uprising in the Americas.
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“A Huge Contingent of Armed Africans”: Revisiting Enslaved African Resistance

Discussion of teaching the Malê Revolt

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Liberating Narratives @liberatingnarratives.com · Aug 27

Time for a new theme for the month and a new free post. I wrote about why we should and how we can center Brazil when teaching the transatlantic slave system.
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I drew heavily on the work of @araujohistorian.bsky.social

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“The Horrors of the Cruel System of Slavery”: Revisiting the Transatlantic Slave System

Discussion of teaching Brazil and the transatlantic slave system

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