Category: Slavery
Richmond Creating Center on History of Slave Trade at Shockoe Bottom
Richmond, Virginia’s Shockoe Bottom was a center of the slave trade in the United States. Sales of human beings took place there throughout the 19th…
David Ruggles Home Stop on the Underground Railroad
David Ruggles was one of the most effective organizers of the Underground Railroad in New York City. Ruggles was a free Black man from Norwich,…
Banners at the Albany Mall Interpret the History of the Underground Railroad in NY
When friends hear that I am going to the Albany Mall, they often think I am going shopping, albeit 180 miles from where I live…
Books on Slavery for Children from School Library Journal
The School Library Journal, a respected trade publication, has a list of books to use with students that focus on slavery in the United States….
When Jourdon Anderson Was Asked by His Former Owner to Return to Work After the Civil War
The Reconstruction Era National Historical Park recently shared this: In August 1865, Jourdon Anderson, a freedman living in Dayton, Ohio, addressed a letter to his…
When a “Slave Owner” Sought the Help of the Union Army in Re-Enslaving Black People
One experience that many Union soldiers had for the first time in their lives when they were marching through the Confederacy was was encountering enslaved…
Jon Meacham reviews AMERICAN INHERITANCE: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson in NY Times
Jon Meacham reviews AMERICAN INHERITANCE: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson in this weeks New York Times…
A Third of the People Depicted in Art at the National Capitol in Washington are Enslavers
I have posted before about the Washington Post‘s study of slavery and the United States Capitol. Today the Post discusses the representation of slaveholders in…
David Blight Tries to Answer the Question of Whether the Civil War Was Inevitable
David Blight, the Yale historian who has been a leading interpreter of the Civil War Era for more than a quarter century, has an extended…
Washington Post Gives Background on “Whipped Peter” of New Film “Emancipation”
Today’s Washington Post gave some interesting background on the new Will Smith film Emancipation. The Washington Post movie reviewer gave the film a largely negative…