slavery

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• SOURCE: The American Historian
  06/17/2019
  

  Juneteenth and Beyond: African American Emancipations Celebrations Since 1808

  by Wilma King

  June Nineteenth is widely celebrated for the abolition of slavery in Texas and the Confederate States in general. 

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Origins of the Lost Cause Myth

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  States’ rights and slavery, while theoretically distinct, were in praxis intertwined. Here's what a Jeffersonian analysis of Jubal Early’s lost-cause apologia can teach us.

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• SOURCE: The Post and Courier
  6/9/2019
  

  Historians at South Carolina museum expand its telling of area’s African American history

  The museum contracted with historian Dr. Edwin Breeden to research on the area’s African American residents.

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  5/25/19
  

  History is Often Closer Than We Think

  by Wayne Willis

  “Isn’t it interesting that you are talking to a man, who talked to a man who was exactly your age, only 110 years ago?"

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/26/19
  

  ‘Ship of Horror’: Discovery of the Last Slave Ship to America Brings New Hope to an Old Community

  The people of Africatown are already dreaming that the ship’s bones will reside with them, serving as a key not only to the past but to the future, attracting tourists and sparking a much-needed renaissance.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/28/19
  

  One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves

  At the close of the Civil War, freed slaves in Charleston honored fallen Union soldiers.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/19
  

  A tale of two Mount Vernons: How Washington’s estate separates his story from his slaves’

  Mount Vernon is also a Southern plantation where hundreds of people lived in servitude and abject poverty, and their stories deserve to be heard, too.

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• SOURCE: PBS Newshour
  5/23/19
  

  Video of the Week: How discovery of the slave ship Clotilda informs U.S. history

  The remains of the last slave ship that came to America have been found in Alabama's Mobile River. In 1860, the schooner Clotilda brought 110 Africans to U.S. shores, decades after it was illegal to import slaves into the country.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/23/19
  

  What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019

  If you’re surprised that the issue of reparations for black Americans has taken so long to resolve, blame the president. President Andrew Johnson.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/19
  

  The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts

  Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration came later.

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• SOURCE: AP
  5/19/19
  

  Historian works to ‘humanize those enslaved’ at Fort Monroe

  A trove of historical records tells us Fort Monroe in Hampton was built on the backs of thousands of African slaves. But little was known about their identities or who they were — until now.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/10/19
  

  The Problem With Ancestory.com

  by Adam H. Domby

  The search engine functions to hide both slave ownership and enslaved people from the eyes of contemporary genealogists.

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• 5/12/19
  

  The Remarkable History of the Union League Club

  by Michael Hogan

  Few remember the pivotal role played by a small social club in New York City during the Civil War and beyond. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  5/7/19
  

  Relics of Rebel Slave Fort Unearthed by Hurricane Michael

  The site was recently listed as part of the NPS’ Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/28/19
  

  The centuries-long fight for reparations

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  There is a long and old tradition of black men and women demanding restitution for the time they were enslaved.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  4/30/19
  

  Cambridge University to study how it profited from Atlantic slavery

  The University of Cambridge will conduct a two-year academic study of how much it benefited from the Atlantic slave trade and whether its scholarship reinforced race-based thinking during Britain’s colonial era.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  She was captured and enslaved 400 years ago. Now Angela symbolizes a brutal history.

  Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains.

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• 4/21/19
  

  Slavery and the Electoral College: One Last Response to Sean Wilentz

  by Alan Singer

  As historians and public figures, we have an obligation to defend democratic institutions and expose vestigial anti-democratic elements like the Electoral College that threaten democracy, which includes a careful examination of their origin and history. 

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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.