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“At Last I Defended Myself”: 400 Years of Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave System

A discussion of how to center the resistance of enslaved Africans when teaching the transatlantic slave system in world history courses.

“At Last I Defended Myself”: 400 Years of Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave System
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"People Who Have Interrupted Empire": African and Indigenous Resistance in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

I’ve looked at more world history textbooks than I want to admit. One thing almost all of them have in common is some discussion of Portuguese maritime expansion along the western coast of Africa in the fifteenth century and the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas in the

"People Who Have Interrupted Empire": African and Indigenous Resistance in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries