slavery — Bunk History

Viewing 391–420 of 1240 results. Go to first page

I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

by Leslie M. Harris via Politico Magazine on March 6, 2020

The Science of Abolition

On Hosea Easton’s and David Walker’s attempts to debunk scientific racism.

by Lynne Feeley via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 4, 2020

Chart of names of and payments to enslaved people.

Confederate Slave Payrolls Shed Light on Lives of 19th-Century African American Families

The Confederate Army required owners to loan their slaves to the military. The National Archives has now digitized those records.

by Victoria Macchi via U.S. National Archives on March 3, 2020

George Washington's false teeth

Were George Washington's Teeth Taken from Enslaved People?

How the dental history of the nation’s first president is interwoven with slavery and privilege.

by Matthew Wills, Jennifer Van Horn via JSTOR Daily on February 25, 2020

A Romantic Union? Thoughts on Plantation Weddings from a Photographer/Historian

Plantations are not "charming" or "tranquil" wedding venues. They were gruesome labor camps profiting off of enslaved labor.

by John R. Legg via National Council on Public History on February 24, 2020

Slavery Was Defeated Through Mass Politics

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.

by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 24, 2020

A Slave Trader’s Office Decor and the Pornography of Capitalism

In the antebellum South, the slave trader’s office was a site of desire.

by Jeff Forret via The Panorama on February 17, 2020

Can Slavery Reënactments Set Us Free?

Underground Railroad simulations have ignited controversy about whether they confront the country’s darkest history or trivialize its gravest traumas.

by Julian Lucas via The New Yorker on February 10, 2020

Five Myths About Slavery

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

by Daina Ramey Berry, Talitha L. LeFlouria via Washington Post on February 7, 2020

Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas

How dogs permeated slave societies and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion and social domination.

by Tyler D. Parry, Charlton W. Yingling via Past & Present on February 4, 2020

Paintings of a line of people in darkness in chains behind a Black woman in the light receiving a diploma.

Slavery Reparations Seem Impossible. In Many places, They’re Already Happening.

At the local level, reparations for slavery are already being paid all over the country.

by Thai Jones via Washington Post on January 31, 2020

U.V.A. Inauguration Day 1921

Jefferson’s Shadow

On the occasion of its bicentennial, and in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville, UVA confronts its history.

by Brendan Wolfe via Medium on January 29, 2020

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020

Inventing Freedom

Using manumission to disentangle blackness and enslavement in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia.

by Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela Gross via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 21, 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

California's Forgotten Slave History

San Bernardino, California's early success rested on a pair of seemingly incongruous forces: Mormonism and slavery.

by Kevin Waite, Sarah Barringer Gordon via Los Angeles Times on January 19, 2020

How a Humble Stone Carries the Memory of an African American Uprising Against the Fugitive Slave Law

Stories about the past can help communities create an identity of which they can be proud. This was certainly the case at Christiana.

by James Delle via Zócalo Public Square on January 16, 2020

The Fight to Decolonize the Museum

Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren’t so easily changed.

by Adam Hochschild via The Atlantic on January 15, 2020

‘A Doubtful Freedom’

Andrew Delbanco's new book positions the debate over fugitive slaves as a central factor in the nation's slide toward disunion.

by David W. Blight via New York Review of Books on January 14, 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 Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

Responding to “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” by Celeste Henery.

by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on January 13, 2020

Campaign Unveils Hidden History of Slavery in California

California entered the Union as a free state, but there are hidden stories of slavery to be told.

by Emily Nonko via Next City on January 8, 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

Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.

by Leslie M. Harris via Academe on January 1, 2020

Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson and the Declaration

Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence announced a new epoch in world history, transforming a provincial tax revolt into a great struggle to liberate humanity.

by Peter S. Onuf via American Heritage on January 1, 2020

A circa 1830 illustration of a slave auction in America. Rischgitz/Hulton Archive—Getty Images.

'The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

New Year's Day used to be widely known as "Hiring Day" or "Heartbreak Day"

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on December 27, 2019

What Should a Slavery Epic Do?

If there’s anything the 2010s taught us, it’s that there is no getting these stories right, no honoring with grace the dead and ghosts.

by Lauren Michele Jackson via Vulture on December 26, 2019

The Contagious Revolution

For a long time, European historians paid little attention to the extraordinary series of events that now goes by the name of the Haitian Revolution.

by David A. Bell via New York Review of Books on December 19, 2019

St. Augustine

Forget What You Know About 1619, Historians Say. Slavery Began a Half Century Before Jamestown

African slaves had been in Florida 54 years before they arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. One historian says the 1619 narrative 'robs black history.'

by Nicquel Terry Ellis via USA Today on December 17, 2019

A Personal Act of Reparation

The long aftermath of a North Carolina man’s decision to deed a plot of land to his former slaves.

by Kirk Savage via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 15, 2019

Filters

brought to you by

© Bunk History