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Elias Rodriques

Elias Rodriques is an assistant professor of African American literature at Sarah Lawrence College. His writing has been published in the Guardian, The Nation, and other venues. His first novel is All the Water I’ve Seen is Running.

A black hand holds up the southern states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina) like a sign. A rising sun sits on top of them.

Another Country

The long crisis that was the Middle Passage and slavery gave rise to dreams of a black republic in the New World that date as far back as the seventeenth century. In Brazil, enslaved people fled their masters and formed fugitive communities as early as 1605; by 1630, they merged ...