Slaves

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5-19-15
  

  Should historians refer to slaves as slaves?

  It’s not just an academic debate for historians of American slavery.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  6-30-14
  

  John Huppenthal, Head Of Arizona Schools, Refused To Criticize Founding Fathers For Owning Slaves

  Huppenthal declined to criticize the Founding Fathers for owning slaves, saying they were above reproach.

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-18-13
  

  Slaves’ forgotten burial sites, marked online

  They have been bulldozed over by shopping centers, crept over by weeds and forgotten by time. Across the country, from Lower Manhattan to the Deep South, are unmarked slave burial sites, often discovered only by chance or by ignominious circumstance as when construction crews accidentally exhume bodies when building a shopping mall.Compounding the problem of preserving and locating slave graveyards, there is no comprehensive list of where they are and who lies within them. The situation troubled Sandra Arnold, 50, a history student at the School of Professional and Continuing Studies at Fordham University, who traces her ancestry to slaves in Tennessee.“The fact that they lie in these unmarked abandoned sites,” Ms. Arnold said, “it’s almost like that they are kind of vanishing from the American consciousness.”...