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Abolitionist Thought

**Abolitionist Thought** is an intellectual and political-philosophical tradition that, emerging from and centering Black experiences of slavery and racial domination, systematically critiques enslavement and related coercive regimes while articulating normative visions and strategies for emancipation, racial equality, and transformative justice.

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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom

William F. Mugleston, Lawrence W. Levine · The History Teacher · 1978 · 726 citations

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Specters of the Atlantic: finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history

Choice Reviews Online · 2006 · 699 citations

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The Souls of White Folk: Critical pedagogy, whiteness studies, and globalization discourse

Zeus Leonardo · Race Ethnicity and Education · 2002 · 680 citations

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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom

Frank Kofsky, Lawrence W. Levine · The American Historical Review · 1978 · 604 citations

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Race after technology Abolitionist tools for the new Jim code

2019 · 578 citations

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Authors

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  1. SD
    Seymour Drescher

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    21 publications · 1.6K citations

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  2. DB
    David Brion Davis

    Case Western Reserve University, United States

    10 publications · 815 citations

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  3. BW
    Bertram Wyatt‐Brown

    Case Western Reserve University, United States

    9 publications · 568 citations

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  4. RA
    Roger Anstey

    University of Kent, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 392 citations

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  5. BF
    Betty Fladeland

    8 publications · 552 citations

    8

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Institutions

355

  1. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    11 h-index

    11 publications

    356 citations

  2. Schlumberger (Ireland)

    Dublin, Ireland

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    301 citations

  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    214 citations

  4. University of Georgia

    Athens, United States

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    580 citations

  5. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    291 citations

  6. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    185 citations

  7. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    264 citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    215 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 114 publications · 8.6K citations

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  2. The Journal of Southern History

    64 publications · 3.6K citations

    32

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  3. Slavery and Abolition

    93 publications · 3.7K citations

    31

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  4. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 56 publications · 3.4K citations

    31

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  5. Journal of American History

    69 publications · 3.1K citations

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