slavery

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• SOURCE: NY Times Magazine
  8/14/19
  

  1619 Project: New York Times Magazine Publishes Special Edition Dedicated to American Slavery and Its Legacies

  The powerful collection includes essays by historians, poets, columnists, a variety of academics, and more.

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• SOURCE: Tablet
  8/14/19
  

  Is the U.S. Constitution Pro-Slavery?

  A review of Sean Wilentz's No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/19/19
  

  Stephanie Jones-Rogers gives interview on how white women’s “investment” in slavery has shaped America today

  The author of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South explains why white women were not bystanders to slavery.

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• 8/18/19
  

  The Civil War and the Black West

  by William Loren Katz

  The integral role people of color played in winning the Civil War. 

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• 8/18/19
  

  Bearing Human Cargo: 400 Years Since the Arrival of the First African Slaves in the American Colonies

  by Albinko Hasic

  Although 1619 remains a historic marker, overemphasizing the date or dismissing the long and complicated history of slavery in the Americas would be a mistake.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/2/2019
  

  The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings

  America’s nuns are beginning to confront their ties to slavery, but it’s still a long road to repentance.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/26/19
  

  Alabama moves to protect the Clotilda, believed to be the last ship to bring slaves to the US

  Interest in finding the Clotilda reignited in January 2018 after AL.com reporter Ben Raines discovered the remains of a ship near Mobile.

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• 7/28/19
  

  Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner if the British Won the American Revolutionary War?

  by Keith Brooks

  After its victory, the U.S. went on to become an empire unparalleled in history, its wealth origins rooted largely in slave labor. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  7/15/19
  

  Chicago’s resistance to ICE raids recalls Northern states’ response to the Fugitive Slave Act

  by Kate Masur

  Almost 170 years later, the Fugitive Slave Act is viewed as one of the most repressive federal laws in all of American history. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/18/19
  

  Descendants of slaves and slave owners discover legacy of Maryland’s Sotterley Plantation

  The restored cabin opened to the public in 2017 and was dedicated in honor of Agnes Kane Callum. The property also has an exhibit that describes the working farm, and lists the names of the enslaved people who lived there.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/20/19
  

  Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin

  by Nell Painter

  It can’t be left to black Americans alone to resist the president’s racism. Citizens of all colours need to resist, and embrace activism.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/22/19
  

  Memes and Memory: How Anthony Johnson, a Captive African, Became a Right-wing Talking Point

  by Tyler Parry

  Memes are perfect for establishing “Myth-stories,” as they do not ask readers to evaluate the sources and are often shared prolifically.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  7/17/19
  

  The Racist History of Tipping

  by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

  Lawmakers will vote on the Raise the Wage Act, which would boost the minimum wage across the country to $15 an hour by 2024. This would be a crucial step toward the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  7/17/19
  

  Immigration and the New Fugitive Slave Laws

  by Manisha Sinha

  The abolitionists’ protests against the fugitive slave laws, which deprived large groups of people of their liberty and criminalized those who offered assistance to them, should be an inspiration in our dismal times.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/14/2019
  

  Here's the story of the slave trader who Tennessee's governor is honoring

  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a proclamation officially declaring July 13 "Nathan Bedford Forrest Day," thus honoring the former Confederate general, slave trader and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

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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.