slavery

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• SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
  9/26/2022
  

  Clark U. Prof Models Culturally Sensitive Approaches to Teaching about Slavery

  Raphael Rogers of Clark University notes that even in Massachusetts there are multiple possible "land mines" that social studies teachers need to navigate in lessons dealing with slavery. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/22/2022
  

  Institutional Histories of Canadian Slavery

  by Melissa N. Shaw

  McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver and trader of enslaved Black and Indigenous people.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/21/2022
  

  Documentary on the Last Slave Ship to Arrive in the United States Takes on Questions of Memorializing Racist Violence

  Margaret Brown's "Descendant" looks at the effort to preserve and promote Africatown, the Alabama coast community founded by people brought on the last slave ship to dock in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/16/2022
  

  How True is the History in "The Woman King"?

  "'The Woman King' chooses to make resistance to slavery its moral compass, then misrepresents a kingdom that trafficked tens of thousands as a vanguard in the struggle against it."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  9/16/2022
  

  "The Woman King" Softens Truths of the Slave Trade

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  The film has a delicate task: showing the involvement of the Kingdom of Dahomey in selling other Africans to European slave traders without feeding narratives that blame Africans for the slave trade. It largely sidesteps this history instead. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9/12/2022
  

  The Slave Dwelling Project Pushes History of Slave Rebellions to the Public

  Joseph McGill Jr. links the history of the Stono Rebellion and subsequent slave uprisings to the current effort to suppress so-called Critical Race Theory in schools. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  9/12/2022
  

  Dutch Government Announces Study of Slavery Apology Fund

  While other European nations have made payments in atonement for massacres in their overseas colonial possessions, this initiative would be the first effort at reparations for participation in the transatlantic slave trade itself. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/11/2022
  

  Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Kept the Identities of Enslaved from Archival Oblivion

  After retiring from a career as a Latin Americanist, Hall documented the identities of thousands of people brought to Louisiana in slavery in the 18th century, an achievement others had thought neither possible nor necessary. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/12/2022
  

  Descendants of Enslaved Ask What Harvard Owes Them

  A student research project led to Roberta Wolff-Platt becoming the first identified descendant of persons enslaved by the benefactors of Harvard College. Now Harvard considers how to begin the process of atonement. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/7/2022
  

  Cherokee Nation Opens Exhibition on Slavery

  Until recently, the Cherokee National History Museum in Oklahoma did not acknowledge slave ownership by tribal members or the efforts of the descendants of the enslaved to claim tribal membership. 

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• SOURCE: Virginia Public Media
  9/2/2022
  

  New Virginia Governor's Mansion Tour Doesn't Mention Slavery

  "In a shift from a multi-year effort to tell a more complete history of the mansion, visitors won’t be taken to a building next to the mansion where enslaved workers once slept and toiled. And in two tours on Friday, docents made no mention of slavery at all."

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• SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
  9/1/2022
  

  New Approach at Montpelier: Let All Voices Rise

  After a controversial battle over how to incorporate the descendants of people enslaved by James Madison, Montpelier is beginning to highlight artifacts—and the process of discovering them—related to the lives of enslaved people at the estate. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  8/25/2022
  

  The Geographical Correlation Between Slavery Then and Guns Now

  by Matthew Rozsa

  A new study finds a strong county-level correlation between the number of slaves owned before the Civil War and the number of guns owned today. Is the answer in the violent history of white supremacy in the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras? 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/30/2022
  

  The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey's Rebellion

  by Karen Cook Bell

  Though no enslaved women were indicted as co-conspirators in Charleston, they maintained a culture of silence that enabled future subversive and freedom-seeking actions. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  8/14/2022
  

  Airbnb Listings Latest Case of Trivializing, Commercializing Slave Cabins

  Preservationists like Joseph McGill Jr., founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, say the commercialization of plantation sites has been happening for decades. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  8/14/2022
  

  If American History Needs Heroes, Why Aren't We Teaching about the Abolitionists?

  by Stephanie Coontz

  Those who feel discomfort over studying the history of abolitionism do so because of their refusal to build on the work of an interracial group of American visionaries. 

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  8/9/2022
  

  Alexandria, VA Freedom House Museum Reopens, Making Key Site of Slave Trade a Center for Black History

  The building, once the headquarters of the Franklin and Armfield firm, once the largest domestic slave traders in the United States, now houses a reopened museum showing the DC area as a key site of Black history before and after emancipation. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  8/7/2022
  

  California's Ongoing Secession Movement and its Ties to the History of Slavery

  by Kevin Waite

  Today, more conservative parts of California agitate to separate from the liberally-governed state. In the 1850s, southern California sought to secede from a state constitution that prohibited slavery and build an empire of forced labor. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/2/2022
  

  Reproductive Rights, Slavery, and the Post-Dobbs World

  by Jennifer L. Morgan

  Black women's history with reproductive freedom from slavery to today shows that racial and gendered oppression depend on the denial, embraced by Clarence Thomas, of a constitutional protection for bodily autonomy. 

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• 7/31/2022
  

  Weaponizing Bad-Faith History is a Conservative Tradition from Jim Crow to Alito

  by Charles J. Holden

  "Conservatives’ invocations of history often mixed wishful thinking about the past with bad faith in interpreting it. And it was always done with the present-minded purpose of maintaining elite white male rule, especially on matters of race."