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Throwback Thursday: So You Want to Throw a Slave Mutiny?

A lost supplement from the New York Times Bestseller "Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America."

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Michael Harriot
Jul 31, 2025
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“The Mutiny on La Amistad." (Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama/National Museum of African American History and Culture)

When writing Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America, my editor informed me that there was one problem with the manuscript:

It was “revolt-heavy.”

Even though rebellions of enslaved people are one of my favorite historic…

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