Adelle Banks, American Magazine GU272 descendent Carolyn Smith gestures toward gravestones of descendants of enslaved people in Houma, La. Behind her are sugar plantations and the sugar mill where her ancestors worked. Photo by Claire Vail. Featured Image [dropcap]RNS[/dropcap] — A genealogical association has launched a new website detailing the family histories of slaves who […]
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Black People’s Land Was Stolen | The New York Times
Any discussion of reparations must include how this happened, who did it, and the laws, policies and practices that allowed it.
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What Cambridge University taught us about racism | The Guardian
Cambridge graduates Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi have written a guide to help students – and it’s the second title published by Stormzy’s #Merky Books
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‘The haunted houses’: Legacy of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion lingers, but reminders are disappearing The Washington Post
Greg Schneider, The Washington Post In this Monday, April 8, 2019 photo, the sword that is believed to have been carried by Nat Turner during his insurrection is seen in Courtland, Va. In 1831, a slave rebellion was led by Turner in Southampton County. He and and others from the insurrection were found guilty and […]
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The Dawn of American Slavery: A symbol of slavery — and survival | The Washington Post
Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains
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A brief history of the enduring phony science that perpetuates white supremacy | The Washington Post
The mysterious and chronic sickness had been afflicting slaves for years, working its way into their minds and causing them to flee from their plantations. Unknown in medical literature, its troubling symptoms were familiar to masters and overseers, especially in the South, where hundreds of enslaved people ran from captivity every year. On March 12, […]
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The Bible was used to justify slavery. Then Africans made it their path to freedom. | The Washington Post
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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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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Teaching Hard History | Southern Poverty Law Center
Kate Shuster, Southern Poverty Law Center [dropcap]Schools[/dropcap] are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a basic knowledge of the important role it played in shaping the United States and […]
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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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