slavery

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/17/2022
  

  More Enslaved Africans Came to the Americas Through this Port than Anywhere Else. Why Have so Few Heard of It?

  Despite its recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, efforts to publicly document the history of Rio's Valongo Wharf have run into opposition from the country's right-wing government and those who wish to diminish the significance of slavery in Brazil's history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/10/2022
  

  Washington Post Launches Database of 1,700 Members of Congress Who Owned Slaves

  "For the first seven decades of its existence, Congress returned again and again to one acrimonious topic: slavery. Many of the lawmakers arguing in Washington were participants in the brutal institution at home."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/5/2022
  

  Bristol Protesters Cleared of Toppling Edward Colston Statue

  "In a 10-day trial at Bristol crown court, the four defendants did not contest their actions on 7 June 2020 but sought to argue they were justified, because the statue was so offensive."

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• 12/19/2021
  

  Reflect on Solomon Northup's "A Slave's Christmas"

  by Alan J. Singer

  Solomon Northup's famed description of being kidnapped from freedom in New York to slavery in Louisiana includes a description of Christmas revelry that shows how the enslaved preserved community and humanity, and a contrast to the yearly reality of fear and labor. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/6/2021
  

  Today's Culture Wars are Playing Out on Plantation Tours

  by Kelley Fanto Deetz

  "Museum professionals at plantations hear it all and must balance viewpoints that are diametrically opposed to one another, such as the romanticized notion of antebellum gentility and the constant fear of terror and violence of the enslaved."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  12/8/2021
  

  The 1619 Project and the Demands of Public History

  by Lauren Michele Jackson

  "In spite of all of the ugly evidence it has assembled, the 1619 Project ultimately seeks to inspire faith in the American project, just as any conventional social-studies curriculum would."

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• SOURCE: History.com
  12/6/2021
  

  The 1860 Crittenden Compromise Aimed to Stop Civil War while Preserving Slavery

  John J. Crittenden hoped that restoring the Missouri Compromise and other measures to stop slavery's expansion would prevent slaveholders from following through on threats to secede. Abraham Lincoln wasn't buying it. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  12/2/2021
  

  Marking the 500th Anniversary of the Americas' First Slave Revolt

  The legacy of the rebellion, which is considered the first recorded revolt in the Americas, reverberated throughout the region. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/18/2021
  

  The Storm over the American Revolution

  by Eric Herschthal

  By shoehorning his recent book on the Revolutionary War into the space of the debate about slavery and the founding, critics of Woody Holton are missing important points about the importance of indigenous land to the founding and the global context of colonial independence.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/26/2021
  

  Virginia's Universities are Part of a Long Racial Reckoning

  Virginia was at the center of the American slave trade, the Confederacy, and Jim Crow. It's not surprising that its colleges and universities are the site of intense debate about the legacies of racism. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/23/2021
  

  A Woman Enslaved by a Founder Sought Freedom in Paris

  by Martha S. Jones

  "Paris has no true monument to Abigail, no place that calls to mind an American slave who died there at the advent of American freedom."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/25/2021
  

  What Slavery Looked Like in the West

  by Kevin Waite

  "Historians typically study Black and Native slavery as discrete systems. But America’s wealthiest slaveholders didn’t draw a fixed line."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/28/2021
  

  Joanne Freeman: Violent Rhetoric in Congress is Meant to Intimidate Enemies Into Silence

  "I suppose that’s what we’re going to see now; the person who does that kind of bullying and that kind of threatening gets a good degree of support for it."

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• SOURCE: Diverse Education
  11/12/2021
  

  Brown Issues Expanded Report on University's Involvement with Slavery

  Brown University has released an updated and expanded version of its 2006 report on the university's involvement in the slave trade, which points to further work to be done by the university to contribute to reconciliation and justice. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/9/2021
  

  Enslaved Women as American Revolutionaries: Karen Cook-Bell

  "Instead of viewing Black women as at the margins of the American Revolution and abolitionism, it is important to see them as visible participants and self-determined figures who put their lives on the line for freedom."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/9/2021
  

  The Great White(washing) Way: Business History on Broadway Without Slavery

  by Imani Perry

  The new show "The Lehman Trilogy" tells a heroic story of German Jewish immigrant brothers who rose to the top of American finance, but it tells it without reference to the labor of enslaved people that made it possible. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  11/9/2021
  

  Mt. Vernon Historian Bruce Ragsdale: Washington Faced Slavery and Blinked

  While the sources do show Washington's personal repugnance at slavery, he never made a principled, public statement opposing it or a practical plan to end it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/28/2021
  

  Banning "Beloved" Won't Help Protect Kids, But it Will Help Sanitize Racism

  by Farah Jasmine Griffin

  It's worthwhile to consider Morrison's characterization of censoring Huck Finn as a “purist and yet elementary kind of censorship designed to appease adults rather than educate children.”

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  11/3/2021
  

  Lee's Fault: On Allen Guelzo's Biography

  by John Reeves

  A reviewer concludes that Allen Guelzo's new biography succeeds in evaluating Robert E. Lee's military career but misses in its assessment of his relationship to slavery and his legacy.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  11/1/2021
  

  Partners in Brutality: New Books on the Domestic Slave Trade

  by Nicholas Guyatt

  New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on a single firm, Franklin & Armfield, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.