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Sylviane Diouf's DREAMS OF AFRICA IN ALABAMA: THE SLAVE SHIP CLOTILDA AND THE STORY OF THE LAST AFRICANS BROUGHT TO AMERICA (@oxunipress) #adphdbooks https://instagr.am/p/CeRy1HTFmRI/ Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd

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Annapolis, Baltimore, DC. Slavery cities. This is a really good article. #Repost @afrxdiasporaphd (@get_repost) ・・・ Janice Hayes-Williams speaks to Lisa Snowden-Mccray for the Baltimore City Paper #ADPhD #history #slavery #archive #sources #diaspora

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from A WOMAN OF ENDURANCE by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa #adphdbooks https://instagr.am/p/CeN_dJpuiLn/ Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd

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AUTOCHTONOMIES: TRANSNATIONALISM, TESTIMONY, AND TRANSMISSION IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA by Myriam J. A. Chancy @myriamjachancy (@illinoispress) #adphdbooks https://instagr.am/p/CeRyjSqFltz/ Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd

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#repost @blackrhizomes @alexoteric #collageart #collage #collagist #cutandpaste #afrofuturist #afrofuturism #blackart #blackarts #blackscifi #scifiart #dadaism https://instagr.am/p/Cd726QxOM8e/ Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd

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#Repost @renderingrevolution • • • • • • On the islands of Saint-Louis and Gorée, off the coast of present-day Senegal, headwraps were central to the self-styling of signares, a class of mixed-race women who reigned over these islands and wielded economic power through commercial networks and interests in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. As the progeny of several generations of concubinage between African women and European men, signares used their connections with white men to their advantage. Travel writers described these women as expressing power through their self-presentation, most notably their headdresses. Antoine-Edmé Pruneau de Pommegorge spent twenty-two years in West Africa as a merchant and described the signares’ headwraps as follows: “They wear a very artistically arranged white handkerchief on the head, over which they affix a small narrow black ribbon, or a colored one, around their head.” According to George E. Brooks, this white handkerchief headwrap would evolve into a “striking cone-shaped turban, artfully constructed with as many as nine colored handkerchiefs,” and would become “the hallmark of signares in Senegal and the Gambia.” Senegalese model Khoudia Diop (@melaniin.goddess) was styled as a signare in Gorée, embodying the spirit of the women who asserted their presence on the island through their sartorial ingenuity. #renderingrevolution https://instagr.am/p/CFPWeKpg-F6/ Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd

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#Repost @renderingrevolution • • • • • • While indigo was produced in the Americas in the 18th century, it was also cultivated in India where natural indigo dyes were used in the production of highly valuable Indian textiles such as chintz, madras, and gingham. One of the reasons Indian produced textiles were in such high demand globally in the 17th and 18th centuries in particular, was due to their popularity in the coastal region of the Gulf of Guinea and along the coast of central Africa. Cloths such as Blue Salempouri were produced explicitly for the west African market, where Indian textiles (and European imitations) could be sold by European merchants who came to African coasts for trade and for business in kidnapping and human trafficking. As art historian Cécile Fromont writes in her study of textile use in early modern Kongo, blue dyed textiles and gingham patterns were worn by “Mighty men and women of the region who...demonstrated their ability to negotiate a place for themselves in the new commercial and political systems established as a result of the Atlantic trade routes.” In her discussion of central African dress culture, Fromont analyzes this late 18th century watercolor by French naval officer Louis Ohier de Grandpré titled “Woman from Malemba”. The woman in the image wears fine blue and white striped clothing and has adorned herself with missangas, or beads, which were also a popular European trade item. As exemplified by modes of self-fashioning and practices such as bluing, the color combination of blue and white has a long and rich history in the Atlantic basin. https://instagr.am/p/CGVQf1Bgq78/ Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd

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#Repost @electricmarronage • • • • • • Black scholars’ Tiffany Lethabo King and Therí Alyce Pickens responses to our Blog Posts. Check out our blog for more #marronage conversations. 💜 https://instagr.am/p/CHf2B9ngTAP/ Follow #ADPhD on IG: @afrxdiasporaphd