slavery

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• 1/16/19
  

  William Barr Needs a History Lesson

  by Derek Litvak

  When conservatives claim birthright citizenship is not a part of the Constitution, they are ignoring America’s long history of slavery, discrimination, and segregation. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  12-27-2018 (accessed)
  

  America’s Original Sin

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: Longreads
  12-27-2018 (accessed)
  

  Memory and the Lost Cause

  by Danielle A. Jackson

  An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.

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• 12/15/2018
  

  Is Monticello Monetizing Race at Jefferson’s Expense?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  The foundation that runs Monticello is using public funds to perpetuate a slave narrative that is open to question.

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• SOURCE: The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
  12-12-2018
  

  Report discloses history of slavery and racism at Southern Seminary

  The document, commissioned by President R. Albert Mohler Jr., laments "a sinful absence of historical curiosity."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12-9-2018
  

  Slave Bible From The 1800s Omitted Key Passages That Could Incite Rebellion

  "About 90 percent of the Old Testament is missing [and] 50 percent of the New Testament is missing."

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• SOURCE: The Daily Pennsylvanian
  12-9-2018
  

  Penn used bodies of black people as teaching tools in the 1800s, student research reveals

  The more the students dug into the archives the more ties they found between Penn and slavery. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12-9-2018
  

  A Former Plantation Begins To Tell A Fuller Story Of Slavery In America

  For the first time in its 225-year history, the site has begun telling the stories of the African-American men and women who were enslaved there, and consulting with their descendants. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-20-18
  

  How the Supreme Court fractured the nation over slavery — and how it threatens to do so again

  by H. W. Brands

  The issue: abortion. Those who would outlaw abortion today are as convinced of the morality of their position as the abolitionists were of the morality of theirs.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11-16-18
  

  Texas Students Will Soon Learn Slavery Played A Central Role In The Civil War

  The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  11-7-18
  

  Colorado votes to abolish slavery

  Critics have expressed concern that the new language will make it unconstitutional for incarcerated individuals to work in prisons, Colorado Public Radio reported.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  11-2-18
  

  3 decades after it was finished Julius Scott’s highly praised slavery book is finally published!

  Why had Scott held it back? He’s a perfectionist.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-30-18
  

  Nantes is finally confronting its slavery past

  A museum established to reveal details about the slave trade shocks visitors.

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• SOURCE: NYT Editorial
  10-27-18
  

  The NYT says Sugarland, Texas needs to come to terms with its past

  by Brent Staples

  In an extraordinary full-page editorial the Times recounts Sugarland's gruesome convict leasing system and its forgotten history.

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  10-25-18
  

  The Hidden History of African-American Burial Sites in the Antebellum South

  Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10-23-18
  

  At 63, I Threw Away My Prized Portrait of Robert E. Lee

  by Stanley McChrystal

  I was raised to venerate Lee the principled patriot—but I want no association with Lee the defender of slavery.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-21-18
  

  Was Interracial Love Possible in the Days of Slavery? Descendants of One Couple Think So

  Paula Wright’s great-great-great grandmother, Kittie Simkins, was a black woman born into slavery in South Carolina. Ms. Simkins married a former Confederate soldier.

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• SOURCE: Yale University
  10-15-18
  

  The 2018 Presidential Elections and Brazil’s Slave Past

  by Isadora Moura Mota

  Bolsonaro has argued that Brazil “owes no debt” to its black citizens for Africans themselves “handed over the slaves” to human traffickers.

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• 10/21/18
  

  Even “Good Statues” Have Their Problems

  by Alan Singer

  A case in point.

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• SOURCE: UCONN
  10-3-18 (accessed)
  

  Manisha Sinha’s history lessons tell the truth about slavery in the United States.

  No, Kanye, that’s not how it happened.