Category: Slavery
Texas Historical Commission Removes Books on Slavery and Race from Historic Sites
The Varner-Hogg plantation near Houston was a sugar plantation that was worked by sixty-six enslaved African Americans in the early 19th Century. It is a…
Amistad Monument New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is mostly known as the place where Yale University occupies the center of the city. In the 1800s, it had significantly more importance….
New Exhibit on African American Portraits Before Emancipation at Yale University Art Gallery
Artist Mickalene Thomas has put together an intriguing exhibit a the Yale University Art Gallery of portraits of African Americans in the pre-Emancipation period of…
Forida’s History Education Standards on Slavery Ignore Their Own Expert Reviewers
The Miami Herald has uncovered how Florida has tried to cover up the state’s treatment of Black people. Reporters Ana Ceballos and Alyssa Johnson say…
Civil War Nurse Is Honored By Having Savannah Square Named After Her
Susie King Taylor is honored by the City of Savannah by having one of the city’s famous squares named after her. She is the first…
Opera “Omar” on Slavery Wins Pulitzer Prize for Music
The Pulitzer Prize for Music was awarded earlier this week to the new opera Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels. The opera tells the…
Lavinia C. Thompson-The Personal Story of Slavery and Civil War Webinar May 20, 2023
The new International African American Museum (IAAM) in charleston is offering another virtual program on South Carolina history. Here is the museum’s description of the…
Can We Call Harriet Beecher Stowe an Abolitionist?
I have visited the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe in Hartford and read Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I have even seen the stained glass likeness of…
Plymouth Church Brooklyn, Henry Ward Beecher and the Civil War Photo Tour
Although I live on Long Island, I was often in historic Brooklyn to visit Michele. I will be sharing some picture that I took in…
New Yorker on the Fight at the American Historical Association Over President’s Column on Slavery History
New Yorker writer Emma Green has an interesting piece in the New Yorker on the well-publicized article by the president of the American Historical Association…