Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post [dropcap]When[/dropcap] the Rev. Jaymes Robert Moody takes his pulpit to preach, sometimes he pictures the graveyard — that is where his congregation was born. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It was called Georgia Cemetery, named, he has been told, for the place the enslaved were stolen from before being sent to work the […]
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This Could Be the First Slavery Reparations Policy in America | Politico
As Democratic presidential candidates tackle the fraught issue, undergraduates at Georgetown University have proposed a fund to benefit descendants of 272 slaves sold by the school nearly two centuries ago.
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She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi. | The New York Times
It has long been believed that a man named Cudjo Lewis was the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Now a researcher at Newcastle University in Britain says she has discovered testimony from someone who may have lived even longer — a woman named Redoshi. The new findings, published […]
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Reparations Are a Moral Imperative and Political Disaster | Bloomberg
How Democrats can lead the discussion on racial inequality.
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Equal-Opportunity Evil | Slate
A new history reveals that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable—and brutal—as it was for men.
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America doesn’t need another apology for slavery, but atonement | Dallas News
Joyce King, Contributor, Dallas News [dropcap]Black[/dropcap] History Month, 2019, has been a sobering reality check for millions of white Americans who are expressing shock and outrage at everything from elected officials donning blackface to a beloved movie star’s admission he once wanted to take revenge on a random black man. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] America does not […]
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later the Diaspora Still Suffers | AFRO
“The Transatlantic slave trade … for 400 years deprived Africa of its lifeblood for centuries and transformed the world forever.”
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Black men got the right to vote in 1870. This ex-slave’s son was the 1st to cast a ballot. | NJ.Com
The election was a vote on whether to revise the existing charter of the town or to abandon it in favor of creating a new township. Peterson voted to revise the charter, which won 230 votes to 63.
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How Ceiling Fans Helped Slaves Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners | Atlas Obscura
The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.
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This Freed American Slave Founded an African Capital | OZY
Because one of the George Washingtons of Sierra Leone was a former American slave.
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