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Daryl Michael Scott

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Race, Prison, and the Thirteenth Amendment

Critiques of the Thirteenth Amendment have roots in a long history of activists who understood the imprisonment of Black people as a type of slavery.

by Daryl Michael Scott, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on September 21, 2023
Grievance History

Historian Daryl Scott weighs in on the 1619 Project and the "possibility that we rend ourselves on the question of race."

by Daryl Michael Scott, Kevin Mahnken via The 74 on March 22, 2022
"Bad History and Worse Social Science Have Replaced Truth"

Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

by Daryl Michael Scott, Len Gutkin via The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 10, 2021
Origins of Black History Month

Why did Carter G. Woodson choose February, and what was his vision for the annual commemoration?

by Daryl Michael Scott via Association for the Study of African American Life on February 1, 2011

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How the Founder of Black History Month Rebutted White Racism in a Forgotten Manuscript

Carter G. Woodson’s unpublished work was discovered in 2005 by a Howard University history professor.

by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on February 1, 2019

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

Grappling With the Overthrow of Reconstruction

Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.

by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on March 23, 2023

Engraving of freed slaves arriving at Union lines, New Bern, North Carolina, 1863.

The Emancipators’ Vision

Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means?

by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on December 1, 2022

A Symbol of Slavery — and Survival

Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains.

by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on April 29, 2019

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