slavery

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• 9/15/19
  

  The Native Americans Who Assisted the Underground Railroad

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  Studying the role of Native Americans in assisting freedom seekers in the pre-Civil War Midwest requires the historian to assemble an archive from a range of disparate sources.  

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• 9/15/19
  

  How the Kikotan Massacre Prepared the Ground for the Arrival of the First Africans in 1619

  by Gregory D. Smithers

  English (and ultimately, United States) colonialism was (and is) built not only with the labor of stolen bodies from Africa, but the stolen lands of Native Americans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/7/19
  

  Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States

  by Gillian Brockell

  Spanish explorers brought 100 slaves to a doomed settlement in South Carolina or Georgia. Within weeks, the subjugated revolted, then vanished.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/7/19
  

  The Lost Promise of Reconstruction

  by Eric Foner

  Can we reanimate the dream of freedom that Congress tried to enact in the wake of the Civil War?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/19
  

  As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back

  “We’re at a very polarized, partisan political moment in our country, and not surprisingly, when we are in those moments, history becomes equally polarized."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/5/19
  

  America's 'democratic experiment' is inextricably tied to the history of slavery

  by Peniel E Joseph

  The year 1619 laid out rough boundaries of citizenship, freedom, and democracy that are still being policed.

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  9/4/19
  

  Reviewing Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

  by Tiana Wilson

  Fuentes’ work contributes to the historical knowledge of early America through her focus on violence and how it operated during slavery and continues today through archives. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/4/19
  

  When Henrietta Wood Won Reparations in 1878

  by W. Caleb McDaniel

  She sued the man who had kidnapped her into slavery for damages and lost wages, offering lessons for today’s debate.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/29/19
  

  New Exhibit Highlights the Understudied History of Enslaved Women in Colonial Cape Town

  At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.

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• 9/1/19
  

  Why Conservatives Are So Upset About the 1619 Project

  by Adam Bruno

  Conservative pundits conceive of the past as determined by the actions of “great men,” defined by heroic and noble acts of patriotism from its citizens, and generally memorable for its unifying moments not its shameful ones. The 1619 Project counters all these notions. 

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• 9/1/19
  

  Restricting Automatic Citizenship to Children Born to Americans Serving Abroad Is Only the Latest Effort by Trump to Dismantle Birthright Citizenship

  by Derek Litvak

  Trump and conservatives are attempting a wholesale constitutional revolution by dismantling birthright citizenship. Here's why birthright citizenship is so historically important. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/28/19
  

  Washington Post Publishes Five Essays On What Isn’t Being Talked About When Schools Teach Slavery and Features Prominent Historians

  Featuring the work of historians Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Leslie M. Harris, Walter Johnson, Daina Ramey Berry, and Andrés Reséndez. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/26/19
  

  How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery

  by Cynthia Greenlee

  Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/25/19
  

  The Weaponization of History

  by Wilfred M. McClay

  Ignorantly invoking slavery or the Holocaust is an affront to those who seriously study the past.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/23/19
  

  Setting the historical record straight for the critics of The New York Times project on slavery in America

  by Kelley Fanto Deetz

  Conservative characterizations oversimplify the complex history of the slave trade and discourage important conversations about, and an understanding of, American history. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/14/19
  

  America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.

  by Jamelle Bouie

  Featuring the work of historian Manisha Sinha. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/25/19
  

  George Washington owned slaves and ordered Indians killed. Will a mural of that history be hidden?

  by Gillian Brockell

  This is the story of the layers of history that will continue to exist underneath, whether the murals are covered by curtains, panels or paint.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/14/19
  

  Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.

  by Nikole Hannah-Jones

  Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different — it might not be a democracy at all.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/20/19
  

  The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.

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• SOURCE: PBS News Hour
  8/18/19
  

  Video of the Week: The 1619 Project details the legacy of slavery in America

  To observe the anniversary of American slavery, The New York Times Magazine launched The 1619 Project to reframe America’s history through the lens of slavery. The project lead, reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.