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Southern Baptist Convention’s Flagship Seminary Details Its Racist, Slave-Owning Past
"We are living in an age of historical reckoning," said Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr.
by
Marisa Iati
via
Washington Post
on
December 12, 2018
The Mystery of William Jones, an Enslaved Man Owned by Ulysses S. Grant
Looking for traces of the last person ever owned by a U.S. president.
by
Nick Sacco
via
Muster
on
December 7, 2018
Frederick Douglass Forum
An online forum on the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass.
by
David W. Blight
,
Leigh Fought
,
Manisha Sinha
,
Chris Shell
,
Noelle Trent
,
Neil Roberts
,
Christopher Bonner
via
Black Perspectives
on
November 30, 2018
The Costs of the Confederacy
In the last decade, taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.
by
Brian Palmer
,
Seth Freed Wessler
via
Smithsonian
on
November 28, 2018
Frederick Douglass, Abolition, and Memory
On Douglass’s monumental life, the voice of the biographer, memory and tragedy, and why history matters right now.
by
David W. Blight
,
Martha Hodes
via
Public Books
on
November 26, 2018
The Question Without a Solution
The horrors of the fugitive slave laws, the costs of union, and the value of comity.
by
Alan Jacobs
via
Weekly Standard
on
November 24, 2018
America’s Struggle for Moral Coherence
The problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is what led to the Civil War. It hasn’t gone away.
by
Andrew Delbanco
via
The Atlantic
on
November 12, 2018
How Slavery Made the Modern Scotland
A new documentary lays bare just how central a role Scotland played in the slave trade.
via
The Herald
on
November 4, 2018
How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead'
Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis."
by
Leah Donnella
via
NPR
on
October 31, 2018
The Hidden History of African-American Burial Sites in the Antebellum South
Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.
by
Evan Nicole Brown
via
Atlas Obscura
on
October 25, 2018
The Double Battle
A review of David Blight's new biography of Frederick Douglass.
by
Eric Foner
via
The Nation
on
October 24, 2018
At 63, I Threw Away My Prized Portrait of Robert E. Lee
I was raised to venerate Lee the principled patriot—but I want no association with Lee the defender of slavery.
by
Stanley A. McChrystal
via
The Atlantic
on
October 23, 2018
Naming the Enslaved, Reconciling the Past in Memphis
The roll call for the names of 74 African Americans sold into slavery by Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis was solemn.
by
Hannah Baldwin
via
Southern Poverty Law Center
on
October 19, 2018
The Origins of Prison Slavery
How Southern whites found replacements for their emancipated slaves in the prison system.
by
Shane Bauer
via
Slate
on
October 2, 2018
Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
During and after slavery, some whites considered legal marriage too sacred an institution to be offered to black Americans.
by
Vanessa M. Holden
via
Black Perspectives
on
September 19, 2018
Raising Cane
The violence on Capitol Hill that foreshadowed a bloody war.
by
Joanne B. Freeman
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
September 15, 2018
The South Carolina Monument That Symbolizes Clashing Memories of Slavery
In Charleston, a monument to John C. Calhoun squares off against its symbolic rival, the steeple of Emanuel A.M.E. Church, where a white supremacist killed nine.
by
Ethan J. Kytle
,
Blain Roberts
via
Zócalo Public Square
on
September 6, 2018
When Slavery Is Erased From Plantations
Some historical sites have struggled to reconcile founding-era exceptionalism with the true story of America’s original sin.
by
Talitha L. LeFlouria
via
The Atlantic
on
September 2, 2018
United Daughters of the Confederacy & White Supremacy
In an open letter, an encyclopedia editor stands behind the use of the term "white supremacy" to describe the UDC's work.
by
Brendan Wolfe
via
Encyclopedia Virginia
on
August 30, 2018
The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave
What happens when the Patent Office doesn't recognize the inventor as a person at all?
by
Matt Novak
via
Paleofuture
on
August 28, 2018
How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management
The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.
by
Caitlin C. Rosenthal
via
Boston Review
on
August 17, 2018
On Richard Blackett’s "The Captive Quest for Freedom"
Five historians weigh in on a new book about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.
by
Martha S. Jones
,
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
,
Elizabeth R. Varon
,
H. Robert Baker
,
Hannah-Rose Murray
,
Simon Newman
via
Historians Against Slavery
on
August 2, 2018
A Wretched Situation Made Plain on Paper
How an engraving of a slave ship helped the abolition movement.
by
Cheryl Finley
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
July 25, 2018
"Though Declared to be American Citizens"
The Colored Convention Movement, black citizenship, and the Fourteenth Amendment.
by
Andrew K. Diemer
via
Muster
on
July 11, 2018
Jefferson and Hemings: How Negotiation Under Slavery Was Possible
In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.
by
Daina Ramey Berry
via
HISTORY
on
July 8, 2018
Conversion and Race in Colonial Slavery
To convert was not just a matter of belief, but also a claim to power.
by
Katharine Gerbner
via
Social Science Research Council
on
June 26, 2018
White Tribe Rising
What accounts for white tribalism?
by
James McWilliams
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
June 21, 2018
Trumpism, Realized
To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.
by
Adam Serwer
via
The Atlantic
on
June 20, 2018
Charleston, Key Port For Slaves In America, Apologizes And Meditates On Racism Today
The apology was a long time coming.
by
Bill Chappell
via
NPR
on
June 20, 2018
The Fight to Define Romans 13
Jeff Sessions used it to justify his policy of family separation, but he’s not the first to invoke the biblical passage.
by
Lincoln Mullen
via
The Atlantic
on
June 15, 2018
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