slavery

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  1/19/20
  

  California’s forgotten slave history

  by Sarah Barringer Gordon and Kevin Waite

  San Bernardino’s early success rested on a pair of seemingly incongruous forces: Mormonism and slavery.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/22/20
  

  A Matter of Facts

  by Sean Wilentz

  The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/17/20
  

  How One Man's Story Offers a New Way to Understand Slave Insurrection

  by Vincent Brown

  Wager, also known by his African name, Apongo, was a leader of the largest slave rebellion in the 18th century British Empire. But long before taking his part in the great Jamaican insurrection of 1760– 1761, commonly called Tacky’s Revolt, he had been on a remarkable odyssey.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/14/20
  

  1619?

  by Sasha Turner

  What to the historian is 1619?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/23/19
  

  The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts

  by Adam Serwer

  A dispute between a small group of scholars and the authors of The New York Times Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of American society.

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• SOURCE: Time
  12/27/19
  

  The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

  In the African-American community, New Year’s Day used to be widely known as “Hiring Day” — or “Heartbreak Day,” as the African-American abolitionist journalist William Cooper Nell described it — because enslaved people spent New Year’s Eve waiting, wondering if their owners were going to rent them out to someone else, thus potentially splitting up their families. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/22/19
  

  Five professors say the 1619 Project should be amended. ‘We disagree,’ says the New York Times.

  In a lengthy response published online over the weekend, New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein addressed each concern from the professors but stood firmly behind the reporting and declined to correct it.

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• 12/29/19
  

  What a Line Deleted from the Declaration of Independence Teaches Us About Thomas Jefferson

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Congress deleted the line to avoid tackling issue of slavery. 

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• 12/29/19
  

  Confederate Monuments in National Perspective

  by Thomas J. Brown

  Northern monuments established a foundation for the argument that Confederate military service deserves recognition although rendered in a deplorable cause.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/13/19
  

  Memo from a historian: White ladies cooking in plantation museums are a denial of history

  by Kelley Fanto Deetz

  I spent a decade researching and writing about enslaved plantation cooks and lecture on the topic at historic sites.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  12/16/19
  

  Did Slavery in America Begin 50 Years Before 1619?

  USA Today publishes article alleging just that. 

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  12/4/19
  

  Pinterest and The Knot Take a Stand Against Plantation Weddings

  "We are grateful to Color of Change for bringing attention to this disrespectful practice," the statement added, referencing a California-based racial justice advocacy organization.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/5/19
  

  A Historic Crime in the Making

  by Rebecca Gordon

  400 years of history leading up to Donald Trump. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/3/2019
  

  Faith made Harriet Tubman fearless as she rescued slaves

  by Robert Gudmestad

  Harriet Tubman worked as a slave, spy and eventually as an abolitionist. What I find most fascinating, as a historian of American slavery, is how belief in God helped Tubman remain fearless, even when she came face to face with many challenges.

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• 11/24/19
  

  The History of Black Incarceration Is Longer Than You May Think

  by Jeff Forret

  The incarceration of African Americans did not begin suddenly with the end of the Civil War. Confinement functioned as a punishment during bondage as well.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  11/19/19
  

  American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’

  by Sean Wilentz

  The neglect of historical understanding of the antislavery impulse, especially in its early decades, alters how we view not just our nation’s history but the nation itself.

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• SOURCE: World Socialist Web Site
  11/14/19
  

  Historian James McPherson Interviewed by the World Socialist Web Site on History of Slavery and NYT's 1619 Project

  by Tom Mackaman

  “Opposition to slavery has also been an important theme in American history”

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• 11/17/19
  

  Robert E. Lee Wasn't a Hero, He Was a Traitor

  by Michael McLean

  Lee was no hero. He was neither noble nor wise. Lee was a traitor who killed United States soldiers, fought for human enslavement, vastly increased the bloodshed of the Civil War, and made embarrassing tactical mistakes. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/9/19
  

  A Slave Rebellion Rises Again

  Some 500 enslaved people revolted in Louisiana but were largely ignored by history. Two centuries later, an ambitious re-enactment brings their uprising back to life.

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• 11/10/19
  

  Slavery and Your Upcoming Christmas Tour

  by Robert E. May

  Despite their public claims that slaves were content with their situations, white southerners knew better. So should those going to southern historic mansions and plantations for Christmas.