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Southern Baptist Convention’s Flagship Seminary Details Its Racist, Slave-Owning Past

"We are living in an age of historical reckoning," said Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr.
by Marisa Iati via Washington Post on December 12, 2018
Hand-carved headstone.

The Hidden History of African-American Burial Sites in the Antebellum South

Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.
by Evan Nicole Brown via Atlas Obscura on October 25, 2018
Statue of John C. Calhoun and spire of Emanuel AME church in Charleston.

The South Carolina Monument That Symbolizes Clashing Memories of Slavery

In Charleston, a monument to John C. Calhoun squares off against its symbolic rival, the steeple of Emanuel A.M.E. Church, where a white supremacist killed nine.
by Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts via Zócalo Public Square on September 6, 2018
U.S. Patent Office

The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave

What happens when the Patent Office doesn't recognize the inventor as a person at all?
by Matt Novak via Paleofuture on August 28, 2018

Beyond the Middle Passage

Intra-American trafficking magnified slavery’s impact.
by Robert Pollie via Inqury @ UC Santa Cruz on July 1, 2018

Conversion and Race in Colonial Slavery

To convert was not just a matter of belief, but also a claim to power.
by Katharine Gerbner via Social Science Research Council on June 26, 2018

How the C-Section Went From Last Resort to Overused

Today, 1 in 3 American babies are delivered via the procedure, twice what the World Health Organization recommends.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 21, 2018
Photo of pop singer Erykah Badu, a black woman wearing a headwrap, singing into microphone.

The Radical History of the Headwrap

Born into slavery, then reclaimed by black women, the headwrap is now a celebrated expression of style and identity.
by Khanya Mtshali via Timeline on May 10, 2018
Anna Williams

A Slave Who Sued for Her Freedom

An enslaved woman who jumped from a building in 1815 is later revealed to be the plaintiff in a successful lawsuit for her freedom.
by Michael Burton, Kwakiutl Dreher, William G. Thomas III via The Atlantic on May 1, 2018

Can Art Museums Help Illuminate Early American Connections To Slavery?

New labels at the Worcester Art Museum are drawing attention to the connections between art, slavery, and wealth in early America.
by Sarah E. Bond via Hyperallergic on April 25, 2018

The Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862

While a far cry from full emancipation, it was an important step towards the abolition of slavery.
by Jessica Parr via We're History on April 16, 2018

Say Goodbye To Your Happy Plantation Narrative

Only a small percentage of historical interpreters are black, and Cheyney McKnight is trying to change that.
by Zoë Beery via The Outline on March 28, 2018
Statue memorializing Irish immigrants.

No, the Irish Were Not Slaves Too

The myth of Irish slavery has found fertile ground in Internet memes as a way to derail conversation about the need for affirmative action today.
by Liam Hogan, David M. Perry via Pacific Standard on March 15, 2018

When Emancipation Finally Came, Slave Markets Took on a Redemptive Purpose

During the Civil War, slave pens held captive Confederate soldiers. After, they became rallying points for a newly empowered community.
by Jonathan W. White via Smithsonian Magazine on February 26, 2018
Mural of a wedding on a plantation, while African Americans working in fields.

'Until Death or Distance Do You Part'

African American marriages before and after the Civil War.
by Alexis Coe, Tera W. Hunter via Lenny Letter on February 13, 2018

Abraham Lincoln's Secret Visits to Slaves

Former slaves claimed the president came to plantations disguised as a beggar or a peddler, telling them they’d soon be free. 
by Bill Black via The Atlantic on February 12, 2018
Painting of a slave auction.

Teaching Hard History

A new study suggests that high school students lack a basic knowledge of the role slavery played in shaping the United States.
via Southern Poverty Law Center on January 31, 2018

Peggy Noonan’s Willful Blindness

Her latest column suggests that harassment is a product of the sexual revolution. She can’t possibly believe that.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 1, 2017

'This Is Surreal': Descendants of Slaves and Slaveowners Meet On US Plantation

At Prospect Hill, people came from as far as Liberia for an unlikely gathering that led to a scene of visible emotion – with ‘a lot to talk about.'
by Alan Huffman via The Guardian on November 16, 2017

Let’s Relitigate the Civil War

There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.
by Jeet Heer via The New Republic on November 1, 2017
Roy Moore with a cowboy hat, gun, and microphone, in front of an American flag.
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The Reason Roy Moore Won in Alabama That No One is Talking About

Centuries of economic inequality have left Southern politics ripe for insurgent outsiders.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Made By History on October 5, 2017

Thomas Jefferson and Us

The resurgence of the debate over the Sage of Monticello's legacy: Is Jefferson the ultimate patriot or ultimate hypocrite?
by David Sehat via William and Mary Quarterly on October 1, 2017

More Than a Statue: Rethinking J. Marion Sims’ Legacy

The "father of U.S. gynecology" is usually depicted as either a monstrous butcher or a benevolent healer. It's not that simple.
by Deirdre Cooper Owens via Rewire on August 24, 2017

“We Lost Our Appetite for Food”: Why Eighteenth-Century Hangriness Might Not Be a Thing

Hunger hasn't always always caused anger and violence - in American history, hunger was more likely to be suppressed.
by Rachel B. Herrmann via Nursing Clio on April 20, 2017

Strummin’ on the Old Banjo

How an African instrument got a racist reinvention.
by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on October 4, 2016
A line of prison laborers by a railroad.

“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force

After emancipation, prison labor replaced slavery as a way for white Southerners to enforce a racial hierarchy.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Black Perspectives on July 11, 2016
Slave revolt in Haiti.

The History of the United States’ First Refugee Crisis

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas Jefferson.
by Nicholas Foreman via Smithsonian Magazine on January 5, 2016
Map of slave trade in Virginia.
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The Forced Migration of Enslaved People

An interactive set of maps and narratives of the forced migration of approximately 850,000 enslaved people from 1810-1860.
by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 1, 2015
Houdini and a ghostly image of Lincoln.
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Radical Religion and Radical Politics

On the intersection of spiritualism with 19th century social reform movements.
via BackStory on October 30, 2015
Black family sitting around log cabin, possibly in Florida, 1892.

Plantations Practiced Modern Management

Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Scott Berinato via Harvard Business Review on September 1, 2013
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