Front PageA fourth-grade teacher asked for 3 'good reasons' for slavery. There was only right answer.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/teaching-about-slavery-ex1
Gay CurmudgeonDecorated early for this week's holiday! #Juneteenth #June19 #holiday #history #slavery #historyofslavery #africa #juneteenthflag #juneteenthcelebration #civilrights #equalrights
FlipboardA new independent publisher for the fediverse! @nybooks joined last week (h/t to @FediFollows for letting us know). Here’s their review of historian Catherine Hall’s “Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism.” [Story may be paywalled]
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/charting-an-unheroic-past-lucky-valley-catherine-hall/
#Books @bookstodon #Reading #History @histodons #Jamaica #Slavery #HistoryOfSlavery
Penny Richardsstarted a #wikipedia article on US historian Virginia Bever Platt (1912-2009), professor @bgsu from 1947 to 1975: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Bever_Platt @wikiwomeninred @ucberkeley #UofWashington @BellinghamWA #historyofSlavery #AAUW
toiida🌻Dawit Abebe, “‘Mutual Identity’ K1”, 2019, mixed media, 35 × 40 cm ★ Ethiopia ★ https://kristinhjellegjerde.com/artists/37-dawit-abebe/overview/ #DawitAbebe #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #contemporarysculpture #popart #mixedmedia #identity #decoloniality #slavery #historyofslavery #slavetrade #didactic #Ethiopianartists #2010s
Dawit Abebe - Overview
Dawit Abebe (b. 1978, Ethiopia) graduated from the Alle School of Fine Art and Design, part of Addis Ababa University with a diploma in painting, sculpture, graphics, photography and industrial design in 2001. His work relies on vibrant, lively colours, which at times contradict the dark subject matter, addressing contemporary...
testingCFP: “Small Islands, Proximity, and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean”
Here is a call for papers for a special issue of In the Same Sea, a project that “advances the hypothesis that the Lesser Antilles were decisively shaped by inter-island connections that transformed separate islands into a common world of slavery and freedom.” This project, based at the University of Copenhagen, has received... #caribbean #colonialism #slavery #historyofslavery #exploitation #history
IHC🗣 We have an open call for communications for the workshop "The gains of their sorrow: Slavery, the slave trade, and the rise of capitalism in the other South", which seeks to open a debate on bridges connecting research focused on the Middle Passage and the one focused on mines, plantations, urban jobs, etc.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/gains-their-sorrow/
#Histodons #CFP #Slavery #Capitalism #Colonialism #MiddlePassage #Mines #Plantations #SlaveLabour #HistoryOfSlavery
CheshireResearch into the Sandbachs who enslaved my ancestors is a quest for the truth – not an attack
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/research-sandbachs-enslaved-ancestors-truth-2586621
#HistoryOfSlavery
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/research-sandbachs-enslaved-ancestors-truth-2586621
#HistoryOfSlavery
‘It stops you cold’: the 272 enslaved people sold to fund Georgetown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/31/georgetown-college-slavery-272-book-rachel-swarns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#HistoryOfSlavery
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/31/georgetown-college-slavery-272-book-rachel-swarns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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kilombavitahttps://archive.org/details/black-voices-hf
Black Voices from Harper's Ferry: Osborne Anderson and the John Brown Raid by Jean Libby; Osborne Perry Anderson
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#OsbornePerryAnderson, #harpersferry, #harpersferryraid, #johnbrown, #slaveinsurrection, #slaveuprising, #unitedstatesofamerika, #historyofvirginia, #historyofwestvirginia, #historyofslavery, #socialhistory
"Shown together from their far-flung points of origination, the role of the black community around Harpers Ferry is obvious in far greater significance than has been previously credited." - introduction
Black Voices from Harper's Ferry: Osborne Anderson and the John Brown Raid : Jean Libby : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Shown together from their far-flung points of origination, the role of the black community around Harpers Ferry is obvious in far greater significance than...