Waiting in a vet hospital parking lot because my dog ate a sock, so here’s an idea for #BlackHistoryMonth  — each day I’ll tweet a Black diasporic writer who is understudied, under-read, or whose work is not widely available. DAY 1: Auguste Lacaussade (1815-1897) {Réunion} DAY 2: José Manuel Valdés (1767-1843) {Peru}

Physician, government official, and author of medical treatises, spiritual poetry, a biography of Saint Martín de Porres, and translations of the psalms #BlackHistoryMonth

🌌 Sending into the universe 🌌

There’s an impt story to be told about Romance languages, translation, and multilingual black literature at Howard in the mid c20:

Alain Locke, W. Napoleon Rivers, Mercer Cook, Ben Carruthers, V.B. Spratlin, Martha Cobb, Miriam DeCosta-Willis… Just reading though their work for a book chapter and I’ve already learned about several Afro-diasporic writers of c18-c19 that nobody is writing about or teaching or translating…?

I've seen a lot of buzz about @librarycongress acquiring the manuscript of Omar Ibn Said's memoir. This is exciting news, to be sure -- but the characterization of the event strikes me as unproductive in crucial ways #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians. 👇🏻Thread 1/20

https://twitter.com/analuciaraujo_/status/1087134158130954242

First, it's important to note that this is a well-known text. It's included in Allan D. Austin's "African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook" (1984, rev. 1997)

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