Posts Tagged ‘Slavery’
This 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.
Read MoreIt’s been a year of modest victories and tough losses for California’s reparations movement. What comes next?
Reparatory justice scholar, attorney, and chair on California’s reparations taskforce, Kamilah Moore spoke to the Guardian about what these mixed results mean, where the movement goes from here, and how the elections could shape the future fight for reparations.
Read MoreHumanity and history: a Q&A with “Nat Turner in Jerusalem” director Tyrone Phillips
Tyrone Phillips talks to reporter Robert Chappell about the importance of telling this historical narrative through a Black lens.
Read MoreThe Slave Dwelling Project Conference
The 8th national Slave Dwelling Project Conference will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.his year’s theme,The Illusion of Freedom: Slavery in the Northern States seeks to explore American chattel slavery that was present in northern states prior to, and after the American Revolutionary War in the 1780s.
Read MoreThey’re uncovering their ancestry — and questioning their families’ racial narratives
Digitized archives and DNA testing prove what these Latinos suspected: Spanish ancestry can include African roots and the legacy of slavery.
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