slavery

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• SOURCE: AP
  5/19/19
  

  Historian works to ‘humanize those enslaved’ at Fort Monroe

  A trove of historical records tells us Fort Monroe in Hampton was built on the backs of thousands of African slaves. But little was known about their identities or who they were — until now.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/10/19
  

  The Problem With Ancestory.com

  by Adam H. Domby

  The search engine functions to hide both slave ownership and enslaved people from the eyes of contemporary genealogists.

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• 5/12/19
  

  The Remarkable History of the Union League Club

  by Michael Hogan

  Few remember the pivotal role played by a small social club in New York City during the Civil War and beyond. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  5/7/19
  

  Relics of Rebel Slave Fort Unearthed by Hurricane Michael

  The site was recently listed as part of the NPS’ Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/28/19
  

  The centuries-long fight for reparations

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  There is a long and old tradition of black men and women demanding restitution for the time they were enslaved.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  4/30/19
  

  Cambridge University to study how it profited from Atlantic slavery

  The University of Cambridge will conduct a two-year academic study of how much it benefited from the Atlantic slave trade and whether its scholarship reinforced race-based thinking during Britain’s colonial era.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  She was captured and enslaved 400 years ago. Now Angela symbolizes a brutal history.

  Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains.

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• 4/21/19
  

  Slavery and the Electoral College: One Last Response to Sean Wilentz

  by Alan Singer

  As historians and public figures, we have an obligation to defend democratic institutions and expose vestigial anti-democratic elements like the Electoral College that threaten democracy, which includes a careful examination of their origin and history. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/16/19
  

  When Slaveowners Got Reparations

  by Tera W. Hunter

  Lincoln signed a bill in 1862 that paid up to $300 for every enslaved person freed.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  David Brion Davis, Prizewinning Historian of Slavery, Dies at 92

  Professor Davis wrote or edited 16 books, but paramount were the three that examined the moral challenges and contradictions of slavery and their centrality in American and Atlantic history.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/12/19
  

  Georgetown Students Vote to Add Fee for Slavery Reparations to Tuition

  if approved by the university, it will be the first time an American university financially addresses its past as a slave-owning institution.

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• 4/14/19
  

  The Electoral College and the Myth of a Proslavery Ploy

  by Sean Wilentz

  A Reply to Akhil Reed Amar.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/8/19
  

  From ‘40 acres and a mule’ to LBJ to the 2020 election, a brief history of slavery reparation promises

  by John Torpey

  Does the United States owe descendants of slaves reparations?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/4/19
  

  What new research on slave-owning dynasties tell us about how wealth is really handed down

  The contribution of an ambitious new analysis from Leah Boustan of Princeton University, Katherine Eriksson of the University of California at Davis and Philipp Ager of the University of Southern Denmark. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/8/19
  

  Cory Booker to introduce reparations commission bill in the Senate

  The bill, originally introduced by former Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and currently sponsored in the House by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, has emerged as a key issue for 2020 Democrats.

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  4/7/19
  

  Historians are starting to explore the dark side of science

  Scientific historians are coming to terms with the fact that science thrived in part because of the transatlantic slave trade of the 1500s to 1800s.

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• 4/7/19
  

  James Madison Responds to Sean Wilentz

  by Alan Singer

  The Electoral College may not have been expressly designed only to protect African slavery, but based on Madison’s notes, it was the mode most preferred by pro-slavery forces.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/4/19
  

  The Electoral College Was Not a Pro-Slavery Ploy

  by Sean Wilentz

  There is a lot wrong with how we choose the president. But the framers did not put it into the Constitution to protect the South.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/2/19
  

  She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi.

  The author Zora Neale Hurston discovered Redoshi, who became known as Sally Smith after being enslaved, while doing research for her literary works in the South.

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  3/25/19
  

  Aline Helg on her newly translated book, Slave No More

  Helg describes what examining self-liberation from a continental perspective—beyond the confines of a particular country—teaches us about slavery and liberation.