keri leigh merritt, phdHave an #afterlife interview w the amazing Yohuru Williams this morning.
Catch us on @QasimRashid’s #SiriusXM show very soon - details to come!
#book #newbook @haymarketbooks #pandemic #covid #loss #love #death #sirius #radio
Dr. Cory James Young
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historian of northern slavery & abolition | petitioning for freedom project manager & digital legal history postdoc at UNL | Georgetown PhD & Geneseo BA | i ♡ WNY | he/him
aidoThere's no systemic racism but weirdly every time we train an AI on public data sets it becomes very racist.
Karin DalzielPlease boost for reach!
We're looking for undergrads curious about how marginalized people used the law in the long 19th c & we're ready to train you in critical & digital legal research tools in our 10wk summer program! Priority app deadline is Feb 1: https://go.unl.edu/cg3q
#LegalStudies #DigitalLegalResearch #Legal #research #Undergraduate #History #PoliticalScience #Sociology #EthnicStudies
MaggieAlong with Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole (born Jamaica, 1805) was a pioneering nurse & a heroine of the Crimean War. Her great work went unrecognised for almost a century after her death. The War Office declined her request to be sent to the Crimea as a war nurse, so she funded the trip herself & founded the ‘British Hotel’ to help look after sick & wounded soldiers. Her autobiog. (1857) was the 1st written by a black woman in Britain
#BlackBritain #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter
#BlackBritain #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter
Rachel SwarnsHello, all! I'm a longtime NYT journalist turned NYU academic, and I'm thrilled to be here! I've reported on stories overseas, in DC and around the country. But these days, I examine slavery and its modern-day legacies, focusing on how slavery fueled the growth of contemporary institutions, like Georgetown and the Catholic Church. Next book in 2023! I loved the serendipity of birdland and hope to find some of that here #histodons #journalism #blackjoy #blackmastodon #goodreads #introductions
In late 1865, a few Pennsylvania newspapers ran a column about a man named Michael Ward under the headline “The Last Slave in Lancaster County.” As best I can tell, the reporting was correct with one key error: Ward, who was born in 1788, was registered as a term slave, not a lifetime slave, and therefore had been a free man for nearly 50 years.
The history of the elision of these statuses begins with the passage of Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition law in 1780 and continues through the present.
Yo #histodons, what’s your favorite historical monograph that has nothing to do with what you study?
One of mine is @[email protected]’s The Invention of the Restauarant.
One of mine is @[email protected]’s The Invention of the Restauarant.
Liette Gidlow, Ph.D.Black Americans have *lost* the right to vote many times.
Today I'm busy with the 1838 "Appeal of 40,000 Citizens Threatened w Disfranchisement," a treatise opposing a constitutional amendment in PA.
The amendment was ratified anyway.
PA Blacks lost voting rights until the 15A
janus rose 🔊❌ we should have daylight when we go to work in the morning
❌ we should have daylight when we come home from work at night
☑️ we shouldn’t have to work so many hours that we have to ration The Sun