Category: Slavery
New Short Film on the Lives of Enslaved Couple’s Gender Change to Flee to Freedom
Ellen and William Craft ran away from slavery in plain sight. Ellen, who was light skinned, disguised herself as a sickly white man. Her husband…
Leon Litwack, Historian of the Reconstruction and Jim Crow Eras, Dies
Leon Litwack, history professor at the University Of California, Berkley, died last week at the age of 91. His book Been in the Storm So…
The Second Amendment & The Right to Kill Black People in Slavery and Reconstruction
Slate’s legal writer Dahlia Lithwick recently interviewed historian Carol Anderson, professor and chair of African American studies at Emory University, on her new book The…
Christiansburg, Virginia to Install Panels on the Town’s Black History During Slavery and Reconstruction
The Montgomery Museum of Art & History in Christiansburg, Virginia and the Christiansburg Institute has approval to place three interpretive panels in the town square…
South Carolina Plantation to Tell the Story of the African Americans Who Escaped From It
Historic Brattonsville in McConnells, S.C. is working on a new exhibit focusing on four people enslaved at the plantation at the center of the historic…
NY Times Book Review Podcast Interview With Clint Smith on “How the Word Was Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery”
The first half hour of the New York Times Book Review podcasts is devoted to Clint Smith’s new book on how historic sites interpret slavery,…
Watch Video on How “Slave Burial Grounds” Are Rediscovered in Louisiana
The New York Times has a fascinating ten minute video on how 150 year old maps and modern satellite imagery are being used to find…
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith published by Little Brown (2021). Clint Smith’s…
New Yorker: Should Dred Scott Decision Be Taught in Law School?
The New Yorker has an essay on the trend in some law schools to no longer have students read the entire Dred Scott Decision in…
Francis Parkman Prize Goes to New Work on Nat Turner
The prestigious Francis Parkman Prize is awarded annually by the Society of American Historians to a nonfiction work of history on an American theme published…
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