Category: Slavery
NY Times: The Impact of Forced Medical Research on Slaves on Modern Medicine
Illustration: Escaped slave John Brown The next installment of the New York Times’s new series commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first…
NY Times: The Impact of Slavery on the Conditions of Modern American Workers
The New York Times has a promising new series called “1619” that marks the 400th Anniversary of the first African slaves being brought to Jamestown….
Washington Post Publishes Comments of Plantation Tourists Complaining that They Learned About Slavery!
For about a hundred years, “Plantation Tours” in the South virtually ignored the slaves who made up the vast majority of the people living on…
Podcast Reenactment of Frederick Douglass “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” With David Blight
Here is a neat podcast re-enactment of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” delivered in Rochester, NY in…
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