slavery

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/24/20
  

  National Register of Historic Places Often Ignores Slavery's Significance on American South

  The register’s written entries on the plantations tend to say almost nothing about the enslaved people.

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• 2/23/20
  

  He said, She said: In the Matter of Nat Turner

  by Christopher Tomlins 

  Nat Turner spoke while black and asks us all to listen. If we are to understand him – to understand what sort of man he was, by whom he was charged to act, on whose behalf he acted, and why – we have to begin by listening.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/20
  

  The enslaved people who built and staffed the White House: An afterthought no more

  A new online exhibit by the White House Historical Association, a private nonprofit that sits across the street from the White House, explores that untold history.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/14/20
  

  There Have Been 10 Black Senators Since Emancipation

  by Eric Foner

  Elected 150 years ago, Hiram Revels was the first.

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• SOURCE: Activist History Review
  

  Historical Memory and the Slave Narrative Collection

  by Sarah Whitwell

  Rather than viewing memory as a passive process of recalling lived experiences as objective truths, historians have begun to view memory as an active ordering of the past.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/12/20
  

  For hundreds of years, enslaved people were bought and sold in America. Today most of the sites of this trade are forgotten.

  by Anne C. Bailey and Dannielle Bowman

  A powerful photoessay that is the latest article from the 1619 Project. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/11/20
  

  A stolen slave auction plaque shook Charlottesville. But the confession was the real shock.

  “This is called reparations, as far as I’m concerned,” he said when asked if he was willing to go to jail.

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• 2/9/20
  

  Re-Animating the 1619 Project: Teachable Moments Not Turf Wars

  by James Brewer Stewart

  Those of us who value the 1619 Project can reclaim our “teachable moment” by excavating beneath the heated rhetoric. There we will discover that the journalists and the historians embrace conflicting but equally valuable historical truths regarding slavery’s power to shape our nations past and present.

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• 2/9/20
  

  The Erasure of the History of Slavery at Sullivan’s Island

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  Some 40% of the nearly 400,000 Africans imported into British North America and the young United States passed through this place.  It has been termed the “Ellis Island” of African Americans.

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• 2/9/20
  

  The 1619 Project Debate with History of Slavery in New York City

  by Alan Singer

  Slavery and its legacies in New York City. 

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• SOURCE: News Observers
  2/5/20
  

  Born a slave, John Hunter lived to be 112. Then NC historian Ernest Dollar found his family.

  With luck and the internet, City of Raleigh Museum Director Ernest Dollar rescued him from wills buried in the state archive, articles printed in newspapers that no longer exist and a single line from the 1870 census.

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• SOURCE: American Historical Review
  1/23/20
  

  1619 and All That

  by Alex Lichtenstein

  "What is odd about the letter is that it implies that the singular problem with the 1619 Project is that journalists are practicing history without a license."

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• 1/26/20
  

  1,056 Feet: Why I Needed the 1619 Project Growing Up

  by Derek Litvak

  The 1619 Project is not interested in retelling America’s founding story. It seeks to forge a new one. The people who contributed to this effort know full well those like myself, who grew up in the drainage ditches of America, in the long shadow of a bright star, need to hear this history. Demands to “stick to the facts” often sideline or silence our story. 

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• 1/26/20
  

  Twelve Scholars Critique the 1619 Project and the New York Times Magazine Editor Responds

  Scholars composed a letter to The New Times Magazine concerning 'The 1619 Project.' The NYTM editor, Jake Silverstein, responded but the NYTM declined to publish the letter and his response. The scholars created a reply and Silverstein had no objection to publishing the exchange in another venue. It is published here.

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• SOURCE: LA Times
  1/19/20
  

  California’s forgotten slave history

  by Sarah Barringer Gordon and Kevin Waite

  San Bernardino’s early success rested on a pair of seemingly incongruous forces: Mormonism and slavery.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/22/20
  

  A Matter of Facts

  by Sean Wilentz

  The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/17/20
  

  How One Man's Story Offers a New Way to Understand Slave Insurrection

  by Vincent Brown

  Wager, also known by his African name, Apongo, was a leader of the largest slave rebellion in the 18th century British Empire. But long before taking his part in the great Jamaican insurrection of 1760– 1761, commonly called Tacky’s Revolt, he had been on a remarkable odyssey.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/14/20
  

  1619?

  by Sasha Turner

  What to the historian is 1619?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/23/19
  

  The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts

  by Adam Serwer

  A dispute between a small group of scholars and the authors of The New York Times Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of American society.

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• SOURCE: Time
  12/27/19
  

  The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

  In the African-American community, New Year’s Day used to be widely known as “Hiring Day” — or “Heartbreak Day,” as the African-American abolitionist journalist William Cooper Nell described it — because enslaved people spent New Year’s Eve waiting, wondering if their owners were going to rent them out to someone else, thus potentially splitting up their families.