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Jessica Marie Johnson

Jessica Marie Johnson

Jessica Marie Johnson is assistant professor in the department of history at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). icon

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A Dark Laboratory x Electric Marronage Virtual Roundtable Featuring Tao Leigh Goffe, Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, Tiffany Lethabo King, & Jessica Marie Johnson

“What are the compartments that have been placed around how we understand slavery and genocide and its impact on our lives and the world?”

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