slavery

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/16/19
  

  When Slaveowners Got Reparations

  by Tera W. Hunter

  Lincoln signed a bill in 1862 that paid up to $300 for every enslaved person freed.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  David Brion Davis, Prizewinning Historian of Slavery, Dies at 92

  Professor Davis wrote or edited 16 books, but paramount were the three that examined the moral challenges and contradictions of slavery and their centrality in American and Atlantic history.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/12/19
  

  Georgetown Students Vote to Add Fee for Slavery Reparations to Tuition

  if approved by the university, it will be the first time an American university financially addresses its past as a slave-owning institution.

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• 4/14/19
  

  The Electoral College and the Myth of a Proslavery Ploy

  by Sean Wilentz

  A Reply to Akhil Reed Amar.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/8/19
  

  From ‘40 acres and a mule’ to LBJ to the 2020 election, a brief history of slavery reparation promises

  by John Torpey

  Does the United States owe descendants of slaves reparations?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/4/19
  

  What new research on slave-owning dynasties tell us about how wealth is really handed down

  The contribution of an ambitious new analysis from Leah Boustan of Princeton University, Katherine Eriksson of the University of California at Davis and Philipp Ager of the University of Southern Denmark. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/8/19
  

  Cory Booker to introduce reparations commission bill in the Senate

  The bill, originally introduced by former Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and currently sponsored in the House by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, has emerged as a key issue for 2020 Democrats.

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  4/7/19
  

  Historians are starting to explore the dark side of science

  Scientific historians are coming to terms with the fact that science thrived in part because of the transatlantic slave trade of the 1500s to 1800s.

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• 4/7/19
  

  James Madison Responds to Sean Wilentz

  by Alan Singer

  The Electoral College may not have been expressly designed only to protect African slavery, but based on Madison’s notes, it was the mode most preferred by pro-slavery forces.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/4/19
  

  The Electoral College Was Not a Pro-Slavery Ploy

  by Sean Wilentz

  There is a lot wrong with how we choose the president. But the framers did not put it into the Constitution to protect the South.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/2/19
  

  She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi.

  The author Zora Neale Hurston discovered Redoshi, who became known as Sally Smith after being enslaved, while doing research for her literary works in the South.

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  3/25/19
  

  Aline Helg on her newly translated book, Slave No More

  Helg describes what examining self-liberation from a continental perspective—beyond the confines of a particular country—teaches us about slavery and liberation.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/25/19
  

  ‘Loyal Slave’ Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History

  by Kali Holloway

  These monuments—nearly all of them still standing—prop up the fantasy that slaves were happy, loyal, and devoted to those who enslaved them.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/20/19
  

  Who Should Own Photos of Slaves? The Descendants, not Harvard, a Lawsuit Says

  Tamara Lanier is suing Harvard University for ownership of daguerreotypes of slaves who she says are her ancestors.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  3/20/19
  

  No, Fox’s Katie Pavlich, the US Wasn’t the First to Abolish Slavery

  by Juan Cole

  Slavery began in British North America in the 1600s. So it took longer than 150 years to abolish it. More like 200 years.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/20/19
  

  The U.S. should get more credit for ending slavery ‘within 150 years,’ Fox panelist says

  Many historians were quick to correct and criticize her remarks. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  3/18/19
  

  The History of Reparations

  by Katherine Franke

  From the Civil War to today. 

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• 3/17/19
  

  The Antigay "Traditional Plan" and the History of the Methodist Church

  by Christopher M. Bishop

  Until this month, slavery was the only other issue that seriously threatened the unity of American Methodism.

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• 3/17/19
  

  Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue: A Southern Unionist’s Viewpoint

  by Elizabeth Varon

  Elizabeth Van Lew was a Southerner who supported the Union. She--and other Southern Unionists--deepen our understanding of the Civil War and its legacies. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  3/8/19
  

  How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All

  by Martha S. Jones

  Theirs was a unique brand of politics crafted at the crossroads of racism and sexism.