November 2011
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The Battle Hymn of John Brown →
“Does anyone who walks by 26 Court Street, steps from Boston’s City Hall and...”
– Barbara F. Berenson Ghosts of the Civil War - Opinion - The Boston Globe http://b.globe.com/vSACIo
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“The frequent hearing of my mistress reading the bible soon awakened my curiosity...”
– Frederick Douglass — My Bondage and My Freedom (via ludimagister)
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Evans and Cebula on Academic Blogging →
via @dancohen: “There has been some very good writing recently on academic blogging that I wanted to highlight in this space. Over on the excellent History of Emotions Blog, Jules Evans asks “Should Academics Blog?“, and offers some smart reasons in favor. I particularly liked this reason, given how academics often find the writing process difficult..”
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“Massera, the verry tigers have trembled for these hands…and dare you think...”
– John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative, of a five years’ expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam (London: Johnson, 1796), 2:208-10 as cited in Natalie Zemon Davis, “Judges, Masters, Diviners: Slaves’ Experience of Criminal Justice in Colonial Suriname,” Law and History Review 29, no. 4 (2011),...
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Williams: History of national African-American... →
The Smithsonian project and the Fredericksburg vision of former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder were viewed as competitors to tell black history on a national stage. The Washington-based museum awaited congressional funding; the Fredericksburg museum, private dollars. But while the Smithsonian project is scheduled to break ground in February and open in late 2015, the National Slavery Museum is...
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via @legalhistory: Special Issue on Law, Slavery,... →
The November, 2011 issue of Law & History Review is a special issue on the theme “Law, Slavery, and Justice.” The introduction to the issue, by editor David Tanenhaus, follows:
The special issue transports our broad readership into the unsettling history and shifting historiography of the laws of slavery on land and at sea in the turbulent Atlantic World. Special thanks to...
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“The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
“In this manner I had...”
– The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (via luc-blakes-commonplacebook)
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Caribbean Emancipations (Social History Special...
TOC: 1. Introduction 2. Miranda Frances Spieler, “The Destruction of Liberty in French Guiana: Law, Identity, and the Meaning of Legal Space, 1794-1830” 3. Astrid Cubano Iguina, “Freedom in the Making: The Slaves of Hacienda La Esperanza, Manatí, Puerto Rico, on the Eve of Abolition, 1868-1876” 4. Camillia Cowling, “‘As a Slave Woman and as a Mother’:...
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via @JBHEdotcom: Yale Acquires Archives of 18c... →
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has acquired the archives of Thomas Thistlewood, a British plantation owner in Jamaica in the 18th century. The archives include 92 volumes of notebooks and diaries, spanning more than 35 years.
The diaries, which cover the years 1750 to 1786, provide a detailed account of the racial, sexual, and economic aspects of life on a ...
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via @voxunion on #ows: Occupy These…! Slavery and...
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Hearing of and seeing the White-held signs calling for an end of “our” enslavement by Wall Street is, in part, why more and more are looking to challenge the language and the focus of these White Occupy Wall Streeters. The metaphor of an often misused metaphor demands it. As Patricia Bradley has documented this metaphor of slavery became the leading tool of propaganda used by the...
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Ever notice how the descendants of the people who... →
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JENdA's Issues of Our Time: The Help (#19, 2011)
“Issues of Our Time” is a new section of JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies devoted to a prompt and timely analysis of pressing issues of national or international concern by scholars, activists, and intellectuals. The inaugural issue focuses on the best-selling book, “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett, which was adapted to film by her friend, Tate Taylor. The film stars...
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Thoughts On Common In AMC’s New Post-Civil War... →
via @shadowandact:
This one co-stars rapper-turned-actor Common, who plays a character named Elam - a freed, bi-racial slave who heads west to find work, while also hoping to find his place in society, as he doesn’t feel that he fits squarely into either the “black world” or the “white world….”
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Rehearsal for Reconstruction →
From @nytimes ‘s Disunion blog:
For the slaves who lived on Port Royal, it was their first step toward freedom. Their owners had fled when Union forces attacked the forts, and most of the slaves either refused to join their owners or were not invited to flee in the first place. When Union troops entered Port Royal, they found thousands of slaves without masters. Their legal status,...
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Writing Slavery after Beloved: Literature,...
Writing Slavery after Beloved: Literature, Historiography, Criticism Université de Nantes, France - 16-17 March 2012 Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2011 The keynote speakers will be: - Dr. Judith Misrahi-Barak, Associate Professor at the University of Montepellier III, France - Pr Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University) Can Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) be considered as a watershed in the...
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@DBIHarvard: "Harvard and Slavery: Seeking a...
Please join us for a presentation of “Harvard and Slavery: Seeking a Forgotten History” and a discussion of slavery and universities On Wednesday, November 16th, from 5:15pm-7:00pm, the Harvard and Slavery Research Project will host a presentation and discussion of its publication “Harvard and Slavery: Seeking a Forgotten History.” The publication grew out of research by...
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@DBIHarvard in 2013: Freedom Rising: Emancipation...
Coming in 2013… Freedom Rising: Emancipation and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation The 54th Massachusetts Regiment at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina, July 18, 1863. Mural at the Recorder of Deeds building, District of Columbia, 1943 Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for...
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Black Culture: WOMEN BEAT BACK SLAVECATCHERS →
black-culture:
WOMEN BEAT BACK SLAVECATCHERS
In the summer of 1848, eight or ten people made it across the Ohio river in their northward flight from slavery. The slave catchers tracked them into town, but the bounty they were after turned out to be elusive:
“The women began to gather from adjoining houses…
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#POTUS #FortMonroe @ASALH President Obama to Sign... →
….Fort Monroe, a historic fort in Virginia’s Tidewater region, played a pivotal role in the history of slavery in the United States. Built between 1819 and 1834, Fort Monroe has occupied a strategic coastal defensive position since the earliest days of the Virginia Colony. It was the place where Dutch traders first brought enslaved Africans in 1619. During the Civil War, the fort remained...
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House may have ties to Underground Railroad... →
One of the oldest houses in Romeo may have been very active in the Underground Railroad based on some local research…..
