slavery

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  1/13/2021
  

  Josh Hawley Is Not the First Missouri Senator with Blood on His Hands

  by Steven Lubet

  Senator Josh Hawley arguably helped incite a mob to invade the Capitol to thwart the certification of Biden's victory. Missouri's antebellum senator David Rice Atchison helped incite a civil war in Kansas in 1854. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/12/2021
  

  Review: Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document?

  by Gordon S. Wood

  Gordon Wood says James Oakes's new book examines the dialectical relationship between 19th century interpretations of the Constitution as a pro-slavery and anti-slavery document and argues that that debate steered Lincoln toward a commitment to racial equality as inextricable from abolition.

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• SOURCE: Medium
  1/4/2020
  

  Who was Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Why Does He Matter Now?

  by Julia Gaffield

  The anniversary of Haitian independence is occasion to rethink the legacy of the nation's first head of state, the uncompromising opponent of slavery and colonialism Jean-Jacques Dessalines. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Today
  12/29/2020
  

  University of Mississippi Professors Research Legacy of Slavery at State’s Flagship University

  A multidisciplinary task force of scholars at the University of Mississippi is working to tell the stories of people enslaved at the university and examine the role of slavery in building the institution. 

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• SOURCE: WDET
  12/31/2020
  

  Michigan State University Launches Online Database Chronicling North-Atlantic Slave Trade

  Enslaved.org is a searchable database that contains millions of records representing enslaved Africans and their descendants.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/3/2021
  

  ‘Cancel Culture’ is Not the Preserve of the Left. Just Ask Our Historians

  by David Olusoga

  British media has enthusiastically demonized historians whose work challenges myths of national glory by focusing on slavery and colonialism. 

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• 12/20/2020
  

  Defending the 1619 Project in the Context of History Education Today

  by Alan J. Singer

  Critics of the 1619 project may dispute particular claims or interpretations, but an understanding of the minimal attention devoted to slavery and its legacies in secondary school curricula shows that the project is badly needed. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/2020
  

  The Founder of Johns Hopkins Owned Enslaved People. Our University Must Face a Reckoning

  by Martha S. Jones

  "This year, so many of us at Johns Hopkins have taken pride in being affiliated with our colleagues in medicine and public health who have brilliantly confronted the coronavirus pandemic. That pride, for me, now mixes with bitterness."

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  12/9/2020
  

  Illuminating the Legacy of Slavery at a New York Museum

  Artist Reggie Black is projecting a message about the history of slavery in New York City on the façade of the ​Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Manhattan, where six people were enslaved.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/12/2020
  

  He's the MP with the Downton Abbey Lifestyle. But the Shadow of Slavery Hangs over the Gilded Life of Richard Drax

  The MP, an advocate for Brexit and a harsh critic of Black Lives Matter protests, now faces criticism over the centrality of Caribbean slavery to his family's vast fortune. 

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• SOURCE: Confederates in My Closet
  12/6/2020
  

  Two Women Tackle Their Shared History

  by Ann Banks

  Ann Banks is interviewed along with Karen Orozco Guttierez about the two women's shared roots in antebellum Alabama. 

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• SOURCE: Yale University
  12/9/2020
  

  2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner

  Notre Dame professor Sophie White's "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor and Longing in French Louisiana" is the winner of the 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on the history of slavery, resistance and abolition. 

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• SOURCE: American Heritage
  12/9/2020
  

  Stolen into Slavery (Excerpt)

  by Richard Bell

  An excerpt from Richard Bell's award-winning book "Stolen" which tells the story of five free Black boys sold into slavery. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/9/2020
  

  At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery

  Historian Martha S. Jones led an internal investigation into whether Johns Hopkins owned slaves after a researcher in the Maryland State Archives discovered evidence in the 1850 Census. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/6/2020
  

  The Slave Trade Continued Long After It Was Illegal — With Lessons For Today

  by Manuel Barcia and John Harris

  The persistence of the oceanic slave trade to the United States long after it was outlawed shows the power of financial gain to overwhelm the law, and should warn us today not to ignore injustices. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/2/2020
  

  Cicely was Young, Black and Enslaved – Her Death During an Epidemic in 1714 Has Lessons that Resonate in Today's Pandemic

  by Nicole S. Maskiell

  A gravestone marking the burial of Cicely, an enslaved teenage girl in Cambridge, Mass., points to gap between the importance of black women's labor to colonial society (especially in times of crisis like epidemics) and their remembrance in history.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/1/2020
  

  Reckoning With Slavery: What A Revolt’s Archives Tell Us About Who Owns The Past

  by Marjoleine Kars

  Researching the history of the 1763-1764 Berbice slave rebellion demonstrated that key records for understanding slavery in the Americas are held in archives in Europe and written in the language of colonial powers, making the history of enslaved people difficult to access for their present-day descendants.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/1/2020
  

  A Massive New Effort to Name Millions Sold into Bondage during the Transatlantic Slave Trade

  Historians Daryle Williams, Walter Hawthorne, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and David Eltis, along with Henry Louis Gates, are part of an interdisciplinary collaboration to create access to biographical and genealogical information about individual people enslaved in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  12/2/2020
  

  Democrats Introduce Legislation to Strike Slavery Exception in 13th Amendment

  The proposal would eliminate a loophole written into the 13th Amendment that allows involuntary servitude to be imposed on persons convicted of a crime. Some recent scholars have argued that this exemption is a foundation of the current system of mass incarceration. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/25/2020
  

  Grave Is Found at Site of Historic Black Church in Colonial Williamsburg

  The excavation may have discovered the remains of a Baptist congregation dating to the late 18th century, and may prompt a rethinking of the place of African American history in the open museum of Colonial Williamsburg.