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Capitalism, Slavery, and Economic White Supremacy

On the racial wealth gap.

by Calvin Schermerhorn via The Economic Historian on October 19, 2020

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A History of Anti-Black Racism In Medicine

This syllabus lays groundwork for making questions of race and racism central to studying the histories of medicine and science.

by Elise A. Mitchell, Ayah Nuriddin, Antoine S. Johnson via Black Perspectives on August 12, 2020

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It’s Time for the British Royal Family to Make Amends for Centuries of Profiting From Slavery

An empire built on the backs and blood of enslaved Africans.

by Brooke Newman via Slate on July 28, 2020

Tear Down This Statue

The shameful career of Roger Sherman, mild-mannered Yankee.

by Richard Kreitner via The Baffler on July 6, 2020

Infection Hot Spot

Watching disease spread and kill on slave ships.

by Manuel Barcia via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 22, 2020

The Long War Against Slavery

A new book argues that many seemingly isolated rebellions are better understood as a single protracted struggle.

by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on January 20, 2020

1619?

What to the historian is 1619? What to Africans and their descendants is 1619?

by Sasha Turner via Black Perspectives on January 14, 2020

A New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery

The online resource will offer vital details about the toll wrought on the enslaved.

by Amy Crawford via Smithsonian on January 1, 2020

Skeletons in situ at Avery's rest.

DNA Analysis From Colonial Delaware Skeletons Reveals Beginning Of American Slave Trade

A new DNA study of skeletons from a farmstead on the Delaware frontier has revealed key information about the early transatlantic slave trade.

by Kristina Killgrove via Forbes on December 19, 2019

America Needs Whistle-Blowers Because of People Like This

Since the founding, Congress has supported democracy and public integrity by protecting those who spoke up about abuses of power.

by Allison Stanger via The Atlantic on September 25, 2019

Slavery's Explosive Growth, in Charts: How '20 and Odd' Became Millions

A twist of fate brought the first Africans to Virginia in 1619. See how slavery grew in the U.S. over two centuries.

via USA Today on August 22, 2019

How We Think About the Term 'Enslaved' Matters

The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.

by Nell Irvin Painter via The Guardian on August 14, 2019

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Educated and Enslaved

The journey of Omar Ibn Said.

by Benny Seda-Galarza via Library of Congress on July 22, 2019

How Right-Wing Talking Points Distort the History of Slavery

As we debate reparations, we need to get the facts right.

by Tyler D. Parry via Made By History on June 25, 2019

The 'Clotilda,' the Last Known Slave Ship to Arrive in the U.S., Is Found

The discovery carries intense, personal meaning for an Alabama community of descendants of the ship's survivors.

by Allison Keyes via Smithsonian on May 22, 2019

Muslims of Early America

Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?

by Sam Haselby via Aeon on May 20, 2019

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The Pirate as Conquistador: Plunder and Politics in the Making of the British Empire

As the British Empire's power expanded, piracy became criminalized.

by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra via Arcade on May 6, 2019

Muslims Arrived in America 400 Years Ago and Today are Vastly Diverse

Islamophobes today ignore the long history and contributions of Muslim Americans.

by Saeed Ahmed Khan via The Conversation on April 11, 2019

My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.

by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani via The New Yorker on July 15, 2018

Story of Paris Hill Man Connects Maine to ‘Complexities’ of Slave Trade

Torn from his family in Africa, Pedro Tovookan Parris spent the last years of his short life in rural Maine.

by Kelley Bouchard via Press Herald on July 15, 2018

Lonesome for Our Home

Zora Neale Hurston’s long-lost oral history with one of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on May 23, 2018

Contraband Flesh

A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."

by Autumn Womack via The Paris Review on May 7, 2018

The Last Slave

In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston recorded the story of Cudjo Lewis, the last living slave-ship survivor. It languished in a vault... until now.

by Zora Neale Hurston, Nick Tabor via Vulture on April 29, 2018

Map of the arms trade.

The Roots of America’s Gun Culture

How 18th-century British arms sales, the slave trade, and the Revolutionary War contributed to the mess we have today.

by Priya Satia, Isaac Chotiner via Slate on April 19, 2018

Statue memorializing Irish immigrants.

No, the Irish Were Not Slaves Too

The myth of Irish slavery has found fertile ground in Internet memes as a way to derail conversation about the need for affirmative action today.

by Liam Hogan, David M. Perry via Pacific Standard on March 15, 2018

"Slave Ship" painting (1840) by J M W Turner. Courtesy the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Does Locke’s Entanglement With Slavery Undermine His Philosophy?

John Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and liberalism itself, hypocritical?

by Holly Brewer via Aeon on December 12, 2017

American Slavery: Separating Fact From Myth

Before we can face slavery, learn about it and acknowledge its significance to American history, we must dispel the myths surrounding it.

by Henry Nash Smith via The Conversation on June 19, 2017

Why Haiti Should be at the Centre of the Age of Revolution

Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its climax in the Age of Revolution.

by Laurent Dubois via Aeon on November 7, 2016

Painting by Chima Ikegwuonu depicting the Igbo Landing mass suicide, with a slave trader standing over handcuffed Igbo men on a ship, while other Igbo men resolutely entering the water.

Igbo Landing Mass Suicide

In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast.

by Samuel Momodu via BlackPast on October 25, 2016

Strummin’ on the Old Banjo

How an African instrument got a racist reinvention.

by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on October 4, 2016

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