UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans
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W hat does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence. But what counts as evidence, and who has the authority to make those determinations? In part because a large number of the people involved — namely, the ...
Chance Bonar works at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, and is affiliated with their ongoing Slavery, Colonialism, and Their Legacies at Tufts University project. The effects of ancient slavery, on the other hand, aren’t as tangible ...
All over the world, community stories, customs and beliefs have been passed down from generation to generation. This folkore is used by elders to teach family and friends about their collective cultural past. And for African Americans, folklore has played ...
ST. LOUIS — On Aug. 28, 2023, members of the Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved (DSLUE) non-profit organization launched a petition urging St. Louis University to atone for the enslavement of their ancestors by developing a memorial ...
PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) -- A local nonprofit is uncovering Maine's past, specifically the history of slaves in the state. According to the Prince Project, more than 2,000 people of color who lived in Maine prior to 1800 were slaves. Officials from the ...
The Trump administration ordered the National Park Service to remove any books from its museums or gift shops that cast America in a negative light. That could include stories about slavery. National parks have until tomorrow to meet the Trump ...
Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features. Broadside advertising a slave auction outside of Brooke and Hubbard Auctioneers office, Richmond, Virginia ...
In the past couple of decades, scholars have emphasized the sheer brutality of life under slavery and how that brutality stemmed directly from the fact that slavery was, above all, a business. From the biggest slaveholders, whose sophisticated accounting ...