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By Editor February 18, 2026

OI Author Conversation with Paul Polgar & Ronald A. Johnson

Join us ONLINE on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, for “Teaching about Slavery & Emancipation in the Age of Revolutions” with Paul Polgar (Tufts University), author of Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement” (Omohundro Institute with UNC Press, 2019—new in paper in 2025), and Ronald A. Johnson (Baylor University), author of Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University… Read More

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By Michael J. Becker and Devin Leigh February 04, 2026

“An Interesting Answer to The Interesting Narrative”

Michael J. Becker and Devin Leigh expand on the origin of their piece in the October 2025 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly.    The first page of Andrew Reddie’s “Sketch of the Eboes” from 1796. © The British Library, London As the first memoir written by a formerly enslaved person,… Read More

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By Editor October 20, 2023

Colloq with Simon Newman

Join us on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 5:00 pm in the Cox classroom of the Reeder Media Center, lower level of Swem Library, as we welcome Simon Newman. Professor Newman will discuss “Taken Not Given: the end of slavery in Britain.” England’s Somerset v Stewart (1772) and Scotland’s Knight v Wedderburn (1778) have often been interpreted as ending… Read More

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