Category: Slavery
Yale University Sets Up Working Group on the School’s Ties to Slavery and Racism
In October, Yale University established a working group of students, faculty, and people from the local community to investigate the school’s links to slavery and…
Effort by Trump Administration to Alter History Teaching Condemned by Actual Historians
The final effort by the Trump administration to alter the teaching of history was a report from the newly minted 1776 Commission released on Martin…
Historian Martha Jones Writes That University Founder Johns Hopkins Was Slaveowner, Not Abolitionist
Martha Jones is a well-known historian who teaches at Johns Hopkins University. Recently she was asked to research the school’s involvement with slavery. Her findings…
New Website Launched With Searchable Database of Enslaved People
Databases of people of African descent held as slaves have been around for a number of years, but a new website that partners Harvard and…
NY Times Reviews New Book “The Kidnapping Club” on NY Ring that Kidnapped Blacks Into Slavery
The New York Times has a review of The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan…
Plantation Weddings Are Fun If You Can Forget the Slavery: NY Times on Plantation Popularity
The New York Times has an interesting article on the growing popularity of the “Plantation Wedding.” The houses are big and sometimes beautiful, but the…
University, Court, & Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges & Courts & the Coming of the Civil War by Alfred Brophy
University, Court, & Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges & Courts & the Coming of the Civil War by Alfred Brophy published by Oxford University Press…
Podcast: Eric Foner on the “Fake History” of Reconstruction
Ideastream has a twelve minute interview with Eric Foner on Reconstruction which focuses on the damage done by the fake history of the period that…
When “The Arrival of Negro Troops” Signaled the End of the Confederacy in the Spring of 1865
Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army on April 9, 1865. In April and May of 1865 the remaining Confederate forces surrendered to Union armies….
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel published by Oxford University Press (2019). Here is…