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TODAY: 8th Journée Nationale des Mémoires de la Traite, de l’Esclavage et de...
May 10, 2013 is France’s national day of remembrance of the slave trade, slavery and their abolition. via Comité pour la Mémoire et l’Histoire de l’Esclavage: Le vendredi 10 mai 2013 la France célèbre...
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Edmund S. Morgan Dies at 97
Edmund S. Morgan, author of American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia died yesterday at the age of 97. From NYTimes: Professor Morgan’s book “The Puritan Dilemma: The Story...
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BOOK/NEWS: Second Edition of Jordan’s White Over Black Released
Winthrop D. Jordan. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812, 2nd Ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. via UNC Press: In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out...
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Stuart Hall (1932 – 2014)
via The Guardian: The foundations of cultural studies lay in an insistence on taking popular, low-status cultural forms seriously and tracing the interweaving threads of culture, power and politics....
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Stephanie M. H. Camp (1967-2014)
University of Washington history professor Stephanie M. H. Camp passed away on April 2nd. Camp was the author of Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South...
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Vincent Harding (1931-2014) | Sam Greenlee (1930-2014)
Vincent Harding passed away on May 19, 2014. From the NYT: Vincent Harding, a historian, author and activist who wrote one of the most polarizing speeches ever given by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King...
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Penn Gazette Feature On Salamishah Tillet: Scholar, Teacher, Activist
“As an undergraduate at Penn in the 1990s, Salamishah Tillet C’96 experienced some of the best and very worst that a young person’s college years can offer. It was here that she made lasting...
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The Economist Considers Slavery and the Response is Immediate (A Round Up)
On Sept 4, 2014, the Economist reviewed Edward Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told: “So Mr Baptist, an historian at Cornell University, is not being especially contentious when he says that America...
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Interview: The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others | The UCSB Current
H/T – The Repeating Islands – Andrea Estrada interviews Esther Lezra on her new book The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others (Routledge, 2014): “It was important to show that the representational...
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Berry and Morgan: #Blacklivesmatter Till They Don’t: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy
“We live in a nation that has yet to grapple with the history of slavery and its afterlife.” – Daina Ramey Berry and Jennifer L. Morgan In an essay for The American Prospect, slavery scholars Daina...
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DIGITAL/NEWS: Slave Trade Database to Expand, Update Website | The Emory Wheel
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, an online database providing information about slaves and slave trading voyages, will soon expand to include information about intra-American slave trade as...
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Shepherd Interview on the Morant Bay Rebellion in The Voice
Verene Shepherd, professor of social history at the University of the West Indies, reflects on the 150th anniversary of Morant Bay and the execution of Paul Bogle… What was, in your view, the main...
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Rothman Speaks About Georgetown University’s History With Slavery | The...
With Georgetown University’s history of slavery in the news, Adam Rothman discussed the sources and facts of that history earlier this week: “Rothman, an associate professor of history at Georgetown,...
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Berry: Harriet Tubman isn’t the first black woman to appear on currency in...
Daina Ramey Berry writes: “As a scholar of American slavery and someone who’s published books and taught courses on black women in America for nearly twenty years, I can’t separate my feelings about...
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NEWS/VIDEO: Williams and Berry Launch Making History
New video project, led by Adriane Hopper Williams and Daina Ramey Berry, brings Black women’s history to life: “Making History is a documentary film project that uncovers the untold stories of African...
View ArticleNEWS: How a Small Seminar Course Engaged Readers Everywhere – The Chronicle...
The Chronicle’s teaching newsletter covers the Black Womanhood course taught by Drs. Jessica Marie Johnson and Martha Jones at Johns Hopkins University....
View ArticleVIDEO: Charity Folks (Making History Trailer)
Making History launches with a profile on Charity Folks: “Making History is a groundbreaking platform dedicated to the discovery and remembrance of women’s stories globally. This project is being...
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EVENT: March 29th – Arondekar, Johnson, and Seijas on Decolonizing History
Jessica Marie Johnson, Anjali Arondekar and Tatiana Seijas to discuss decolonizing history this Thursday: For slavery studies, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through...
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CFP: Slavery in the Machine (@sxarchipelagos, Guest Editor: @jmjafrx)
Jessica Marie Johnson writes: If you haven’t submitted your abstract for Slavery in the Machine, a special section of sx archipelagos, there is still time! Submit today. sx archipelagos is now...
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AWARD: 2018 AAIHS Award Recipients Announced
Congratulations Dr. Sasha Turner for winning the 2018 Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize for her article “The Nameless and the Forgotten: Maternal Grief, Sacred Protection, and the Archive of...
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