“If slavery has been destroyed merely from necessity, let every class be enfranchised at the dictation of justice. Then we shall have a Constitution that shall be reverenced by all, rulers who shall be honored and revered, and a Union that shall be sincerely loved by a brave and patriotic people, and which can never be severed.”
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Anna Maria Weems: Escaped from the Maafa (Slavery) disguised as a male carriage driver | Kentake Page
In 1855, Anna Maria Weems escaped to freedom disguised as an enslaved male named “Joe Wright.”
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Her Ancestor Was a Slave to Cherokee Indians. Now She’s Applying to Be a Citizen of the Tribe | Yes Magazine
A landmark decision offers opportunity for healing between descendants of slaveholders and slaves.
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Slave’s daughter who helped open the African American Museum dies at 100 | The Washington Post
Ruth Odom Bonner was 99 when she grasped the rope of the old Baptist church bell and started it tolling across the Mall last fall before a gathering of thousands.
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The hidden stories of medical experimentation on Caribbean slave plantations | Salon
A French physician working in Cayenne, envied the “numerous plant cures” known to “Indians and Negroes.”
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Sold on the Courthouse Steps | International African American Museum (IAAM)
An auction block at a commercial slave market is probably the most common visual that comes to mind when you think of people being separated from families during enslavement.
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HBO’s Confederate will depict alternate timeline where south won US civil war | The Guardian
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss will write and produce the series, which takes place in the lead-up to a third American civil war.
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Tracing Your Roots: My ‘Merikin’ Ancestor Escaped Slavery – The Root
Henry Louis Gates Jr. & NEHGS Researcher Meaghan E.H. Siekman | The Root Dear Professor Gates: I was wondering if you could help identify the parents of my five-times great-grandfather Ezekiel Loney, who was among the “Merikins” (formerly enslaved African-American soldiers who fought for the British) who settled in Trinidad. Ezekiel (born 1787) is one […]
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Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates
Joseph McGill first unrolled bedding in a former slave cabin in 1999.
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For Nearly 150 Years, This One House Told a Novel Story About the African-American Experience
On view in the new museum, the woodframe dwelling evokes the aspirations and limitations of the era following enslavement.
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