slavery

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• SOURCE: TIME
  11/25/2022
  

  Jefferson's Time in Paris Revealed His True Beliefs About Slavery

  by Fred Kaplan

  Jefferson's discussions of slavery with his intellectual compatriots was at odds with the pragmatic and self-serving decisions he made about his own business affairs. 

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• SOURCE: Education Week
  11/16/2022
  

  Scholars Weigh In: Is a Comprehensive US History Course Still Possible?

  A Gilder Lehrman Center panel examined the potential and problems of trying to teach a comprehensive history of the nation in light of multiculturalism and the growing diversity of historical perspectives on slavery, emancipation and equality. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/8/2022
  

  Review: Reevaluating the Grimke Sisters and White Abolitionism

  by Drew Gilpin Faust

  Kerri Greenidge's new history of the Grimke family of South Carolina shows that, while sisters Sarah and Angelina left the south to advocate abolition and feminism, the institution of slavery compromised all white people connected to it. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  11/9/2022
  

  William Still: Forgotten Father of the Underground Railroad

  by Andrew Diemer

  William Still died in 1902 as one of the most famous and well-respected Black men in America. But since, the quiet nature of his work and his preference to preserve the stories of the individuals he helped to find freedom have diminished his standing among abolitionist heroes. 

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• SOURCE: Current
  10/25/2022
  

  Patrick Luck on How the American Slavery Economy Shifted from Tobacco to Cotton and Sugar

  Historians have long recognized that the southern economy shifted from tobacco and indigo cultivation toward cotton and sugar in the late 18th century. A new book examines this revolutionary economic change and how free and enslaved Louisianans experienced it. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/20/2022
  

  Daniel Smith, One of the Last Children of Enslaved Americans, Dies at 90

  Although it's impossible to know exactly how many children of enslaved people survive, all of those interviewed by author Sana Butler for a 2009 book have sinced passed away, nearly closing a living link to the past. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/17/2022
  

  Revisiting Saidiya Hartman on the Meaning of Freedom

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  A quarter century after publication, "Scenes of Subjection" still shows how Americans have embraced emancipation as a national expurgation of the sin of slavery, without stopping to consider the substantive meaning of freedom. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  10/18/2022
  

  Confronting Slavery in the Archives at Georgetown

  by Cassandra Berman

  Jesuit records pertaining to slavery have been housed at Georgetown since 1977. Their unremarked presence highlights the important difference between presence and accessibility in the archives and the work required to document historical responsibility. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  10/11/2022
  

  Penn Students Questioned the University's Comforting Story about its Relationship to Slavery

  The University of Pennsylvania embraced an origin story involving George Whitefield as a way to claim to be older than rival institutions. When it came to acknowledging Whitefield's advocacy for slavery, the university raised its Quaker roots as a shield. Kathleen Brown and students are trying to change the story.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  10/11/2022
  

  Lizzo Talks About the Flute

  The pop superstar touches on numerous subjects, including making history belong to everyone and the historical relationship of racist and sexist stereotyping of Black women's performances looking back to Josephine Baker. 

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• SOURCE: Axios
  10/10/2022
  

  New Project to Interrogate Indigenous Enslavement in Americas

  The project hopes to build a publicly accessible database of documents to allow descendants of enslaved indigenous people to locate information about their ancestors. 

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• SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  9/26/2022
  

  Clark U. Prof Models Culturally Sensitive Approaches to Teaching about Slavery

  Raphael Rogers of Clark University notes that even in Massachusetts there are multiple possible "land mines" that social studies teachers need to navigate in lessons dealing with slavery. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/22/2022
  

  Institutional Histories of Canadian Slavery

  by Melissa N. Shaw

  McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver and trader of enslaved Black and Indigenous people.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/21/2022
  

  Documentary on the Last Slave Ship to Arrive in the United States Takes on Questions of Memorializing Racist Violence

  Margaret Brown's "Descendant" looks at the effort to preserve and promote Africatown, the Alabama coast community founded by people brought on the last slave ship to dock in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/16/2022
  

  How True is the History in "The Woman King"?

  "'The Woman King' chooses to make resistance to slavery its moral compass, then misrepresents a kingdom that trafficked tens of thousands as a vanguard in the struggle against it."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  9/16/2022
  

  "The Woman King" Softens Truths of the Slave Trade

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  The film has a delicate task: showing the involvement of the Kingdom of Dahomey in selling other Africans to European slave traders without feeding narratives that blame Africans for the slave trade. It largely sidesteps this history instead. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9/12/2022
  

  The Slave Dwelling Project Pushes History of Slave Rebellions to the Public

  Joseph McGill Jr. links the history of the Stono Rebellion and subsequent slave uprisings to the current effort to suppress so-called Critical Race Theory in schools. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  9/12/2022
  

  Dutch Government Announces Study of Slavery Apology Fund

  While other European nations have made payments in atonement for massacres in their overseas colonial possessions, this initiative would be the first effort at reparations for participation in the transatlantic slave trade itself. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/11/2022
  

  Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Kept the Identities of Enslaved from Archival Oblivion

  After retiring from a career as a Latin Americanist, Hall documented the identities of thousands of people brought to Louisiana in slavery in the 18th century, an achievement others had thought neither possible nor necessary. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/12/2022
  

  Descendants of Enslaved Ask What Harvard Owes Them

  A student research project led to Roberta Wolff-Platt becoming the first identified descendant of persons enslaved by the benefactors of Harvard College. Now Harvard considers how to begin the process of atonement.