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SOURCE: The New Yorker
7/6/2020

How to Confront a Racist National History

by Isaac Chotiner

"But we have to acknowledge that we’re not upholding history, we’re upholding values, and those are not the values that we want in the twenty-first century."

SOURCE: New York Times
7/6/2020

I’m a Direct Descendant of Thomas Jefferson. Take Down His Memorial.

by Lucian K. Truscott IV

it’s time to honor one of our founding mothers, a woman who fought as an escaped slave to free those still enslaved, who fought as an armed scout for the Union Army against the Confederacy — a woman who helped to bring into being a more perfect union after slavery, a process that continues to this day. In Jefferson’s place, there should be another statue. It should be of Harriet Tubman.

7/3/2020

Abolition Movement Historian Ethan Kytle Discusses Confederate Monuments and Teaching Younger Students about Slavery

by James Thornton Harris

"I don’t think it is fair for a scholar like me to tell a community what sort of monuments it should put up. This should be a local decision—and one that takes into account the perspectives of the entire community, which was not the case with Confederate monuments."

7/3/2020

The Case for a National Liberation Day Holiday on December 6

by Robert Hardaway

The anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which finally eliminated slavery in the entire United States, should be made a national holiday.

SOURCE: BBC
7/3/2020

David Starkey Criticised over Slavery Comments

A popular British historian faces criticism for saying that the slave trade was not genocidal because "so many damn blacks" survived.

SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
7/1/2020

Underwater: Global Warming to Flood the Former Ports of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

by Daniel B. Domingues da Silva

How will the inundation of historic seaports as climate change progresses affect historical memory of the Atlantic slave trade?

SOURCE: Classic FM
7/1/2020

Calls for ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ to be Replaced With a New US National Anthem

Musicians and historians suggest the anthem, which was written by a 19th-century slave owner, has run its course as America’s national song.

SOURCE: The Conversation
6/30/2020

When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History

by Marlene Daut

Because the indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced to compensate those who had once enslaved them, Haiti should be at the center of the global movement for reparations.

SOURCE: History.com
6/29/2020

Why Thomas Jefferson's Anti-Slavery Passage Was Removed from the Declaration of Independence

To call slavery a “cruel war against human nature itself” may have accurately reflected the values of many of the founders, but it also underscored the paradox between what they said and what they did.

SOURCE: Washington Post
6/30/2020

Southern Neighborhoods Have Been Named ‘Plantations’ For Decades. That Could Be Changing.

In recent years, even as activists have decried Confederate monuments and flags, developers have continued using “plantation” in neighborhood names to evoke elegance. But now plantation place names and the word itself are under new scrutiny.

SOURCE: History.com
6/29/2020

Slavery Persisted in New England Until the 19th Century

Historians Margaret Ellen Newell and Christy Clark-Pujara show that slavery was both practiced in many northern colonies and states and was integral to their economic development.

SOURCE: The New York Times
6/27/2020

Activists Push for Removal of Statue of Freed Slave Kneeling Before Lincoln

The Emancipation Memorial, intended to commemorate the end of slavery, has prompted a thorny debate over what the interaction between the two figures conveys.

SOURCE: JStor Daily
6/29/2020

Abolitionist “Wide Awakes” Were Woke Before “Woke”

What the "Wide Awakes" helped create was focus in muddled political times, a whipping up of the enthusiasm of other voters: “By the end of 1860, the nation was wide awake.”

SOURCE: WAMU
6/27/2020

Why A History Professor Says ‘Racist’ Emancipation Memorial Shouldn’t Come Down (audio)

Protesters want to remove the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C. NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Yale history professor David Blight about why he thinks the memorial should stay up.

SOURCE: Washington Post
7/25/2020

Yes, The Freedmen’s Memorial Uses Racist Imagery. But Don’t Tear It Down.

by David W. Blight

As a nation, let’s replace a landscape strewn with Confederate symbols with memorialization of emancipation. Tearing down the Freedmen’s Memorial would be a terrible start for that epic process.

SOURCE: Washington Post
6/25/2020

Yes, D.C.’s Emancipation Memorial Advances White Supremacy

by Rebekah Bryer

The argument that freed slaves commissioned the Emancipation Memorial is only half true; white officials used the funds but ignored designs that expressed a role for the enslaved in bringing about emancipation.

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
6/25/2020

Monuments to a Complicated Past

by Sean Wilentz

Unless we can outgrow the conception of history as a simplistic battle between darkness and light, we will be the captives of arrogant self-delusions and false innocence.

SOURCE: Reason
6/22/2020

The Confederacy Is Not Worth Commemorating

by Jonathan Adler

A traitorous and failed attempt to secede over slavery is nothing to celebrate.

SOURCE: The New York Times
6/23/2020

This Monument to White Supremacy Hides in Plain Sight

by Richard White

The invisibility of Drake’s Cross in a San Francisco park may make it the most fitting monument to white supremacy in the country.

SOURCE: ABC News
6/23/2020

Protesters Try to Topple Andrew Jackson Statue Near White House

Jackson has long been criticized by Native American activists for his role in forcing indigenous tribes off their ancestral lands. Many of them died in the process. Trump, however, has repeatedly praised Jackson.