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The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Joan Wallach Scott Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 The Vexed Relationship ofEmancipation and Equality Joan Wallach Scott It was by no means sufficient to ask: Who should emancipate? Who should be emancipated? The critic should ask a third question: what kind of emancipation...
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Injury and Value: Black Mothering in Slavery and Its Afterlife
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 138–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Halle-Mackenzie Ashby; Jessica Marie Johnson Abstract This essay explores two historical subjects, Catharina, an enslaved woman living and working in eighteenth-century New Orleans, and Ruth, a free field laborer in post-emancipation Barbados. Through a careful reading of their different...
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Real Estate Questions: Capital, Slavery, and Empire in the Early United States
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 2020
... influence of real estate after black emancipation. Real estate enabled post-slavery black dispossession and also facilitated the continuation of the United States as a settler empire. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 slavery empire capital real estate settler colonialism...
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Guinea Sam Nightingale and Magic Marx in Civil War Missouri: Provincializing Global History and Decolonizing Theory
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... explained, "that freed the slaves.They give a hand to Lincoln and them other big emancipator men so that they could bring it about a gift from the colored people ofconjuration and power:'3 We should take seriously this account of African powers transported to the United States by means of explosive...
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Making Freedom Time
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 122–137.
Published: 01 April 2017
... for the abolition ofslavery, which Cesaire continually invoked? Why, when it became clear to Cesaire that departmentalization had become an obstacle rather than a vehicle for substantive colonial emancipation, did he embrace his oldfriend Senghor's program with the goal oftransforming the imperial republic...
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Thomas Müntzer in the Marxist Imagination
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 55–71.
Published: 01 April 2025
... ( Friesen, Reformation 152 ). To put it in terms of Marx’s “On the Jewish Question,” political emancipation alone does not equal human emancipation; if 1848 approximated political emancipation, genuine human emancipation—from property, from religion, and from ideology—remains in the future. Engels’s...
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 April 2025
... to Zimmermann, it is a matter of working on a “universal history of attempts at emancipation” ( Zimmermann 7 ). To investigate the significance of the Peasants’ War and Müntzer five hundred years after their defeat, a different historiographical approach must be found. This is not a history of victims...
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“The Blackness of Darkness”: Mammoth Cave and the Racialization of the Underground
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 2–22.
Published: 01 April 2021
... lived in the cave and had “begun to fancy it would be impossible to quit it” (10). Consequently, when reports circulated in the 1850s that Bishop had been emancipated and was preparing to embark for Liberia, several writers refused to believe them. As one demurred, “He has some idea of emigrating...
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Excess and Utopia: Meditations on Moravian Bethlehem
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 122–147.
Published: 01 October 2012
... eloquence, he too insisted that if we want to learn how to be free, we must attend to excess; we must claim it as our own.In The Marriage ofHeaven and Hell, completed in London in 1793, he wrote that "the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom:' For Blake, the liberation of desire, the emancipation...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): i–iv.
Published: 01 October 2012
[email protected]. VOLUME TWO, NUMBER TWO, FALL 2012 History ofthe Present "Moi seule" 1833: Feminist Subjectivity, Temporality, and Historical Interpretation Caroline Arni translated by Catharine Diehl Excess and Utopia: Meditations on Moravian Bethlehem SethMoglen The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation...
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The Future behind the Mountains and the Sand Dunes: Abdallah Laroui’s Prescriptions for a Recovered Moroccan Modernity
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 274–296.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of nationalist intellectuals and elites ( Choueiri 182–85 ). Instead of evaluating the historical merits of such claims, Laroui argued that colonialist prejudices in historical-writing prevented a modern future from emerging and, in an ironic turn, held the key to its emancipation. This paragraph contains...
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Freedom’s Surprise: Two Paths Through Slavery’s Archives
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 October 2016
... they could earn their emancipation and deportation to Liberia: specifically, he urged those he enslaved to work "overtime; or during their weekly Sabbath break, and he promised to "bank" these "earnings" until this "overtime" labor had earned enough for the enslaved to buy their own freedom, or even...
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The Politics of Peoples in Rabindranath Tagore and W.E.B. Du Bois
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 166–192.
Published: 01 October 2019
... PRESENT emancipation and national liberation:'4 By turning to Cesaire's proposal to incorporate FrenchAntillean colonies into the Republic as "departments;' Senghor's commitment to an emancipatory federalism, and Cesaire's post1956 shift in Senghor's direction, Wilder seeks to excavate an anticolonial...
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Thomas Müntzer, in Latin America
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 72–92.
Published: 01 April 2025
.... . . . Müntzer sought to unite the world with the kingdom of God and in this way fled from reality. As such, he could neither emancipate the peasants from their servitude nor show them a path to emancipation. . . . He announced the Last Judgment but was unable to speak of God’s grace. . . . Thomas Müntzer...
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Digital Commemorations of Slave Revolt
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of the enslaved and give glory to their emancipation, including museums dedicated to the Underground Railroad, often converted out of residences that were once safe houses for escaping slaves. 1 The best treatment of the history of slave resistance that I have encountered in the United States is in the new...
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Notes on the ‘Cellular Regime of Nationality’
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Imperial bureaucracy, and first and foremost its standing army and its police. "It is not enough to emancipate each nation in particular from under the thumb ofthe king;' wrote Elisee Redus. "It must be liberated from the supremacy ofother nations, its boundaries must be abolished, those limits...
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The Subterranean Life of Repression
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 203–212.
Published: 01 October 2019
... closes the passage, this subject is the undivided "Subject ofEurope: I think we are allfamiliar with this Subject ofEurope the secular, liberal, rationalindividual, telos ofall too many western projects ofcolonialism and emancipation. This subject remains central to configura tions ofthe political...
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Freedom as Accumulation
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2016
... and conditions ofproduction in the cotton-growing areas oftheUnited States. However, this essay bends that history in a new direction, to reveal the financialization of slave capital and the national ambit of its circulating value. To describe.freedom as accumulation, as I will here, disputes emancipation...
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Becoming “Welfare Island”: Reproductive Labor and Racial Capitalism in Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 50–80.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Juan and New York . New York : Random House , 1996 . Lightfoot Natasha . Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . Lloréns Hilda . Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental...
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1793: The Neglected Legacy of Insurgent Universality
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 October 2015
..., and introduced a new radical concept ofuniversality, one whose legacy branches into many trajectories of human emancipation. 37 119 1793: The Neglected Legacy ofInsurgent Universality As C.L.R. Jamesnoticed, slaves did not wantto beslaves; they have always wanted to be free.38 During the Haitian insurgencies...
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