slavery

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• 2/14/19
  

  Is the Green New Deal Impossible?

  by James Brewer Stewart

  The Green New Dealers, the Abolitionists and the “Right Side of History”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/13/19
  

  The ‘Loyal Slave’ Photo That Explains the Northam Scandal

  by Kevin M. Levin

  The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/11/19
  

  Historians challenge Northam’s ‘indentured servants’ remark

  Featuring historians Rebecca Goetz and Michael Guasco. 

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• SOURCE: CBN News
  2/11/19
  

  Georgetown University Students Could Pay Reparations for Slavery with a Student Fee

  The student body vote will be held in April along with the annual student government elections, according to the resolution obtained by the website. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/7/19
  

  A Complicated Racial History Underpins Politics In Virginia

  The controversies rocking Richmond are a reminder of the complicated racial history that underpins Virginia politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/19
  

  Virginia is the birthplace of American slavery and segregation — and it still can’t escape that legacy

  Four hundred years after the first enslaved Africans were brought to the United States, the commonwealth reckons with the consequences of the system it created.

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  2/1/19
  

  In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox.

  In the early 1700s, Onesimus shared a revolutionary way to prevent smallpox.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/1/19
  

  3 ways to improve education about slavery in the US

  by Tiffany Mitchell Patterson

  Textbooks often do a poor job when it comes to teaching students about slavery in the U.S.

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• 1/29/19
  

  Were These Enslaved Women Grand Medical Experiments or Guinea Pigs?

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Behind the Sheet is a great success on a number of levels, not just medical, and a four star historical hit.

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• SOURCE: UCONN Magazine
  Accessed 1/29/19
  

  No Kanye, That's Not How it Happened

  History professor Manisha Sinha’s history lessons tell the truth about slavery in the United States.

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• 2/16/19
  

  America Needs a Moral Leader in 2020

  by Donald J. Fraser

  And we can look to Abraham Lincoln as an example. 

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• 2/3/19
  

  To Free or Not to Free

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  A Theoretical Botheration with Jefferson’s View of Slavery

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• 1/16/19
  

  William Barr Needs a History Lesson

  by Derek Litvak

  When conservatives claim birthright citizenship is not a part of the Constitution, they are ignoring America’s long history of slavery, discrimination, and segregation. 

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• 2/3/19
  

  Why Do Few People Know the History of Northern Slavery?

  by Marc Howard Ross

  How and why was the enslavement of tens of thousands of people in the region forgotten, and how and why has it recently been partially recovered? 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  12-27-2018 (accessed)
  

  America’s Original Sin

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy

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• SOURCE: Longreads
  12-27-2018 (accessed)
  

  Memory and the Lost Cause

  by Danielle A. Jackson

  An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.

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• 12/15/2018
  

  Is Monticello Monetizing Race at Jefferson’s Expense?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  The foundation that runs Monticello is using public funds to perpetuate a slave narrative that is open to question.

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• SOURCE: The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
  12-12-2018
  

  Report discloses history of slavery and racism at Southern Seminary

  The document, commissioned by President R. Albert Mohler Jr., laments "a sinful absence of historical curiosity."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12-9-2018
  

  Slave Bible From The 1800s Omitted Key Passages That Could Incite Rebellion

  "About 90 percent of the Old Testament is missing [and] 50 percent of the New Testament is missing."

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• SOURCE: The Daily Pennsylvanian
  12-9-2018
  

  Penn used bodies of black people as teaching tools in the 1800s, student research reveals

  The more the students dug into the archives the more ties they found between Penn and slavery.