slavery

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/10/19
  

  Panama celebrates its black Christ, part of protest against colonialism and slavery

  by S. Kyle Johnson

  Panama’s “Festival del Cristo Negro,” the festival of the “Black Christ,” is an important religious holiday for local Catholics. It honors a dark, life-sized wooden statue of Jesus, “Cristo Negro” – also known as “El Nazaraeno,” or “The Nazarene.”

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• 10/9/19
  

  A Chilling Play Grapples With How We Are All Connected to Slavery

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Can you shake off American history?

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• SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel
  10/7/19
  

  Talk of reparations for slavery moves to state capitols

  Even those who support reparations in theory aren't convinced that it's a matter for state legislatures.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/6/19
  

  Two centuries ago, University of Virginia students beat and raped enslaved servants, historians say

  The secret history of two former University of Virginia students. 

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  Sept 30, 2019
  

  UGA looks to explore its history of slavery

  by Eric Stirgus

  University of Georgia leaders say they want to know more about the school’s history concerning slavery and are committing $100,000 for faculty to submit research proposals.

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  9/30/19
  

  Yes, there were black slaves in the Pacific Northwest. Historians are making the region confront it.

  An Oregon author is exploring little-known chapters of the region's ugly, racist roots.

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• 9/29/19
  

  The Sexual Assault and Exploitation of Enslaved Men in America

  by Thomas A. Foster

  Sexual assault of enslaved men occurred systematically and in a wide variety of forms. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/19/19
  

  Unilever's Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery

  by Thomas A. Foster

  Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses the history of the portrayal of Black bodies, and how that has manifested in 2019.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/20/19
  

  Enslaved Couples Faced Wrenching Separations, or Even Choosing Family Over Freedom

  by Tera W. Hunter

  Loved ones could be sold away at any time. Here's how married couples coped.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/20/19
  

  The Long History of American Slavery Reparations

  by Manisha Sinha

  From the colonial era to today, the bitter legacy of bondage and racial oppression has sparked demands for compensation, with some successes and many broken promises.

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• SOURCE: The Politic
  9/18/19
  

  Two re-namings, two defaults. How and how not to use history and public memory at Yale

  by Jim Sleeper

  “The real work for a place at Yale is not about the name on the building. It’s about a deep and substantive commitment to being honest about power, structural systems of privilege and their perpetuation.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/18/19
  

  What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy: The NY Times Reviews Eric Foner's Latest Book

  by Lincoln Caplan

  “The Second Founding” reflects Foner’s rigorously researched, now mainstream view that Reconstruction was “a massive experiment in interracial democracy."

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• 9/15/19
  

  The Native Americans Who Assisted the Underground Railroad

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  Studying the role of Native Americans in assisting freedom seekers in the pre-Civil War Midwest requires the historian to assemble an archive from a range of disparate sources.  

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• 9/15/19
  

  How the Kikotan Massacre Prepared the Ground for the Arrival of the First Africans in 1619

  by Gregory D. Smithers

  English (and ultimately, United States) colonialism was (and is) built not only with the labor of stolen bodies from Africa, but the stolen lands of Native Americans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/7/19
  

  Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States

  by Gillian Brockell

  Spanish explorers brought 100 slaves to a doomed settlement in South Carolina or Georgia. Within weeks, the subjugated revolted, then vanished.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/7/19
  

  The Lost Promise of Reconstruction

  by Eric Foner

  Can we reanimate the dream of freedom that Congress tried to enact in the wake of the Civil War?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/19
  

  As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back

  “We’re at a very polarized, partisan political moment in our country, and not surprisingly, when we are in those moments, history becomes equally polarized."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/5/19
  

  America's 'democratic experiment' is inextricably tied to the history of slavery

  by Peniel E Joseph

  The year 1619 laid out rough boundaries of citizenship, freedom, and democracy that are still being policed.

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• SOURCE: Not Even Past
  9/4/19
  

  Reviewing Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

  by Tiana Wilson

  Fuentes’ work contributes to the historical knowledge of early America through her focus on violence and how it operated during slavery and continues today through archives. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/4/19
  

  When Henrietta Wood Won Reparations in 1878

  by W. Caleb McDaniel

  She sued the man who had kidnapped her into slavery for damages and lost wages, offering lessons for today’s debate.