Category: Slavery
Podcast from Slate Gabfest on NY Times’s 1619 Slavery Series
The new 1619 Project put out by the New York Times has both been incredibly popular and very controversial. The project observes the 400th Anniversary…
NY Times “1619” Slavery Podcast
The New York Times’s series marking 400 years of slavery in America is titled “1619.” The series is drawing a lot of praise and some…
NY Times Offers a Brief History of Slavery in the U.S.
The New York Times’s new 1619 series offers a brief history of slavery that you may want to read. From the article: Sometime in 1619, a…
Miseducating “Dixie Children”: A Confederate Textbook Discusses Race 1863
During the Civil War several education books were printed to to teach Confederate children the worldview of their elders. This book appeared in 1863. Below…
NY Times: Why Can’t We Teach Slavery Right in American Schools?
The New York Times continues its challenging series 1619 today with an article on the misteaching of slavery in American schools. You can find the article…
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…