slavery

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  7/8/19
  

  Sen. Mitch McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home

  No news articles were found in which McConnell has previously spoken of his ancestors being slave owners. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  July 7, 2019
  

  James Monroe Enslaved Hundreds. Their Descendants Still Live Next Door.

  A small African-American community has existed less than 10 miles from the president’s former plantation for generations. Only recently has the full extent of their relationship been revealed.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/20/19
  

  Black People’s Land Was Stolen

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  In addition to invoking the 40 acres black people never got, the reparations movement today should be talking about the approximately 11 million acres black people had but lost, in many cases through fraud, deception and outright theft, much of it taken in the past 50 years.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/25/19
  

  How right-wing talking points distort the history of slavery

  by Tyler D. Parry

  As we debate reparations, we need to get the facts right.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/18/19
  

  House Democrats, With Pelosi’s Support, Will Consider a Commission on Reparations

  “It’s legislation that we think has finally reached its moment,” said Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, the chief sponsor of the measure.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/18/19
  

  The House Hearing on Slavery Reparations Is Part of a Long History. Here's What to Know on the Idea's Tireless Early Advocates

  by Arica L. Coleman

  The debate about reparations for slavery is not a new one — and the history of the idea shows just how many roadblocks there are to a meaningful conversation about the topic.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  America Has Tried Reparations Before. Here Is How It Went.

  With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/19/19
  

  Why the racial wealth gap persists, more than 150 years after emancipation

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.

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• SOURCE: Pew Research Center
  6/17/19
  

  Most Americans say the legacy of slavery still affects black people in the U.S. today

  63% believing slavery affects the position of black people in American society today either a great deal or a fair amount.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/19/19
  

  GU272 Memory Project Launches on Juneteenth

  In addition to documents, photographs and the indexed genealogies of thousands of descendants, the project includes recorded interviews with dozens of living descendants.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/19/19
  

  There Is No Middle Ground on Reparations

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Americans who oppose reparations care more about responding to political expediency than about the emergency of inequality.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/19/19
  

  She Was Born Into Slavery, Was a Spy and Is Celebrated as a Hero—But We're Missing the Point of the 'Mary Bowser' Story

  by Lois Leveen

  As a historian, I’ve grown concerned that our impulse to celebrate a black spy in the Confederate White House is impeding us from getting history right, in troubling ways.

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• SOURCE: The American Historian
  06/17/2019
  

  Juneteenth and Beyond: African American Emancipations Celebrations Since 1808

  by Wilma King

  June Nineteenth is widely celebrated for the abolition of slavery in Texas and the Confederate States in general. 

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Origins of the Lost Cause Myth

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  States’ rights and slavery, while theoretically distinct, were in praxis intertwined. Here's what a Jeffersonian analysis of Jubal Early’s lost-cause apologia can teach us.

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• SOURCE: The Post and Courier
  6/9/2019
  

  Historians at South Carolina museum expand its telling of area’s African American history

  The museum contracted with historian Dr. Edwin Breeden to research on the area’s African American residents.

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  5/25/19
  

  History is Often Closer Than We Think

  by Wayne Willis

  “Isn’t it interesting that you are talking to a man, who talked to a man who was exactly your age, only 110 years ago?"

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/26/19
  

  ‘Ship of Horror’: Discovery of the Last Slave Ship to America Brings New Hope to an Old Community

  The people of Africatown are already dreaming that the ship’s bones will reside with them, serving as a key not only to the past but to the future, attracting tourists and sparking a much-needed renaissance.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/28/19
  

  One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves

  At the close of the Civil War, freed slaves in Charleston honored fallen Union soldiers.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/19
  

  A tale of two Mount Vernons: How Washington’s estate separates his story from his slaves’

  Mount Vernon is also a Southern plantation where hundreds of people lived in servitude and abject poverty, and their stories deserve to be heard, too.

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• SOURCE: PBS Newshour
  5/23/19
  

  Video of the Week: How discovery of the slave ship Clotilda informs U.S. history

  The remains of the last slave ship that came to America have been found in Alabama's Mobile River. In 1860, the schooner Clotilda brought 110 Africans to U.S. shores, decades after it was illegal to import slaves into the country.