Posts Tagged ‘Slavery’
The Smithsonian Looks at How the Slave Trade Shaped the World
“In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World” is the product of a 10-year collaboration among nearly two dozen curators at 10 institutions on four continents. The exhibit goes beyond the Smithsonian’s traditional American focus to tell a global story of the ways that slavery shaped the modern world.
Read MoreThe burial site of the people Andrew Jackson enslaved was lost. The Hermitage says it is found
Experts have been looking for the burial sites of nearly 30 people who President Andrew Jackson had enslaved.
Read MoreThis Day in History: The North Star Newspaper is Published
The creation and first issue of The North Star by Frederick Douglass in1847.
Read MoreCalifornia bill would give public university admission priority to slaves’ descendants
California lawmaker said he will introduce a bill Monday that would give admission priority to the descendants of slaves at the University of California and California State University, two of the largest public university systems in the nation.
Read MoreThis Date in History: The Zong Massacre Begins
Crew of the slave ship drowned nearly 150 enslaved people, which was en route from England to Jamaica, upon realizing they lacked supplies.
Read MoreScholars Thought White Women Were Passive Enslavers. They Were Wrong.
A growing body of research has debunked the persistent argument that white women were rarely involved in the active buying and selling of enslaved people.
Read MoreInternational Day for the Abolition of Slavery
This day is dedicated to ending modern forms of slavery, such as sexual exploitation, human trafficking, the most heinous kinds of child labor, forced marriage, and the forced recruitment of children for use in armed conflict.
Read MoreThis Date in History: Nat Turner Confesses to Leading Slave Rebellion
It took over two months to Nat Turner to confess to leading a rebellion that resulted in over fifty lost lives.
Read MoreProject reveals UK sites where black Americans fought to end slavery
Abolitionist Frederick Douglas was among the anti-slavery activists who visited England to rally support for his case.
Read MoreInside a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children is a complicated history of slavery and resilience
Colonial Williamsburg has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a curriculum that justified slavery.
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