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BATSWANA AND THE SAN PEOPLES: A LONG HISTORY OF CONTACT, COEXISTENCE, AND TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA BATSWANA AND THE SAN PEOPLES: A LONG HISTORY OF CONTACT, COEXISTENCE, AND TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA The history of southern Africa cannot be understood through narratives of isolated peoples or empty landscapes. Long before the consolidation of Tswana politiesContinue reading “BATSWANA AND THE SAN PEOPLES: A LONG HISTORY OF CONTACT, COEXISTENCE, AND TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA”

THE 8-FOOT SLAVE THEY COULDN’T HANG: HIS CHAINS EXPLODED AND HE DRANK THE MASTER’S BLOOD THE 8-FOOT SLAVE THEY COULDN’T HANG: HIS CHAINS EXPLODED AND HE DRANK THE MASTER’S BLOOD In the summer of 1859 on Blackwood Plantation in Mississippi, an enslaved man known only as Goliath arrived in chains. Standing eight feet tall withContinue reading “THE 8-FOOT SLAVE THEY COULDN’T HANG: HIS CHAINS EXPLODED AND HE DRANK THE MASTER’S BLOOD”