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• SOURCE: George Washington University Textile Museum
  10/23/2020
  

  Online Lecture: Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (11/2)

  The George Washington DC Mondays series supports discussion with local authors and historians about the DC region. 

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  10/19/2020
  

  'Slavery and the City' Tour Sheds Light on London's Dark Past

  An organization advocating for the teaching of Black history in British schools has organized walking tours demonstrating the degree to which the city's financial and political institutions were tied to slavery. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/19/2020
  

  John Brown And Abraham Lincoln: Divergent Paths In The Fight To End Slavery (audio)

  H.W. Brands discusses his new book "The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom" with NPR's Fresh Air. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/17/2020
  

  Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites

  Despite claims by many estates that weddings and events pay for educational programming that addresses the history of slave labor on the property, many still debate the ethics of using plantation properties for celebrations. 

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• SOURCE: CBC
  10/17/2020
  

  Samuel L. Jackson's Enslaved and the Lost History of Canadian Slavery

  Canadian historian Charmaine Nelson says that many Canadians are overly accepting of the narrative of their nation as the endpoint of the Underground Railroad and unaware of the history of slavery in Canada. A new documentary by the famed actor highlights the need to push past comfortable understandings.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/16/2020
  

  On Recent Criticism of The 1619 Project

  by Jake Silverstein

  Critics of the 1619 Project have identified changes and edits to the text of Nikole Hannah-Jones's article, which they claim were made surreptitiously to conceal errors. Editor Jake Silverstein addresses those criticisms. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/12/2020
  

  A New Fellowship To Explore White House’s History Of Slavery

  “The creation of this fellowship is an important opportunity to deepen our understanding of slavery’s enduring legacy in our nation’s capital,” said Stewart McLaurin, the association’s president.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10/14/2020
  

  The So-Called ‘Kidnapping Club’ Featured Cops Selling Free Black New Yorkers Into Slavery

  by Jonathan Daniel Wells

  "It often mattered little whether a black person was born free in New York or had in fact escaped bondage; the police, reinforced by judges like the notorious city recorder Richard Riker, sent the accused to southern plantations with little concern and often even less evidence."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/13/2020
  

  How the 1619 Project took over 2020

  Interviewing project lead Nikole Hannah-Jones and numerous supporters and detractors, Sarah Ellison explores why the 1619 project, more than a year after its publication, is still making people argue about history.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  10/7/2020
  

  Accuracy and Authenticity in a Digital City

  by Anne Sarah Rubin

  The technological capacity to render the city of the past in minute detail doesn't replace the work of interpreting and understanding how people lived in its spaces.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  10/5/2020
  

  The German Model for America

  West German society intially sought to repress evidence of the Holocaust and Nazi crimes, preserving a myth that German civilians were also victims. The work of owning up to those crimes took decades and encountered bitter resistance. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/21/2020
  

  Eric Williams’ Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

  by Katie Donington

  Debates over Eric Williams’s work have ebbed and flowed ever since he first published Capitalism and Slavery in 1944. His book inspired a body of historiography to which many historians of slavery and abolition have added their voices over the decades.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/25/2020
  

  Telling the Truth About Slavery Is Not ‘Indoctrination’

  “'We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans,' Du Bois wrote in Black Reconstruction." Today, American students' levels of ignorance about slavery suggests this too often remains true. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/22/2020
  

  U.K. Conservation Society Details Links to Colonialism and Slavery

  The British historic preservation agency has begun to grapple with how to present the historic connections between properties it manages and fortunes built through slavery and colonialism.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/23/2020
  

  Is Freedom White?

  by Jefferson Cowie

  In American mythology, there exists a gauzy past when white citizens were left alone to do as they pleased with their land and their labor (even if it was land stolen and labor enslaved). In the legend, those days of freedom and equality were, and still are, perpetually under assault. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/21/2020
  

  Why President Trump is Targeting the 1619 Project

  by Julian Zelizer

  "There is nothing unpatriotic about a clear-eyed view of our nation's past. Indeed, understanding the problems and failures at the center of our nation is to take our history seriously."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  https://time.com/5889051/history-curriculum-politi
  

  Trump's Threat to Pull Funding From Schools Over How They Teach Slavery Is Part of a Long History of Politicizing American History Class

  by Olivia Waxman

  "The teaching of U.S. History in public schools has always been political, and such concerns about whether curricula are “anti-American” are par for the course in moments of turmoil."

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• SOURCE: National Park Service
  9/12/2020
  

  The Constitution and the Underground Railroad: How a System of Government Dedicated to Liberty Protected Slavery

  by Paul Finkelman

  "As we celebrate Constitution Day, it is important to remember that this document protected slavery and set the stage for the federal government to hunt down and arrest people, whose only crime was the color of their skin and their desire to benefit from “the Blessings of Liberty” that the Constitution claimed it was written to achieve."

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• SOURCE: Environmental History Now
  9/8/2020
  

  Historical Black Lives Matter: What A Single Story Can Reveal About People & Landscapes

  by Natascha Otoya

  A primary document from the developing Brazilian oil industry demonstrates that the country's transition from slavery to "free labor" was anything but clear-cut. 

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  9/10/2020
  

  Who Owns the Evidence of Slavery’s Violence?

  by Thomas A. Foster

  A lawsuit demands that Harvard University give custody of famous images of enslaved men and women--taken without consent by a biologist seeking to demonstrate white supremacy-- to the subjects' descendents. A Howard University historian agrees, putting the images in context of other intimate violations endured by enslaved persons.