By Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Institution On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner…
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Harvard University lays off slavery project staff, outsources research
BOSTON — Harvard University laid off the staff members that were part of its Slavery Remembrance Program last week —…
Not all insurrections are equal – for enslaved Americans, it was the only option
By Deion Scott Hawkins, Emerson CollegeFor most Americans, Jan. 6 was once an ordinary, ho-hum day. That changed in 2021…
For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back
By Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved men, women and children also…
Paying reparations for slavery is possible – based on a study of federal compensation to farmers, fishermen, coal miners, radiation victims and 70 other groups
By Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School and Cornell William Brooks, Harvard Kennedy School As Americans celebrate Juneteenth, legislation for…
US laws created during slavery are still on the books. A legal scholar wants to at least acknowledge that history in legal citations
By Justin Simard, Michigan State University As the story of Juneteenth is told by modern-day historians, enslaved Black people were…
What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
By Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac UniversityThough Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to…
What the statue of a kneeling enslaved man in the Emancipation Memorial of 1876 tells us about its history − an art historian explains
By Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing,…
Conflict over William Penn statue removal in Philadelphia misses a point – Penn himself might have objected to it
By Andrew Murphy, University of Michigan The National Park Service’s proposed removal of a statue of William Penn from Philadelphia’s…
2 colonists had similar identities – but one felt compelled to remain loyal, the other to rebel
By Abby Chandler, UMass Lowell Through the early 1750s, two men in the British colony of Rhode Island – Martin…
