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The 1619 Project and Bringing History to the People
Dear Baileyblog readers, I wrote this piece in December and it was published on the History News Network and the Cambridge University Press blog in January, 2020. My thoughts regarding the 1619 Project still stand. The 1619 Project of The New York...
Remembering The Weeping Time slave auction and the hidden history of slavery that surrounds us
Dear Baileyblog Readers, I hope you are well. Today I am sharing with you a few items of interest with regard to the work of remembering slavery and its legacy. Yesterday, I was interviewed by journalist Adeel Hassan for The NY Times Race/Related newsletter: "The...
NY Times Magazine’s 1619 Project continues: Article on Slave auction sites
Hello Readers Just sharing with you my recent article in The New York Times Magazine that published last Sunday, February 16, 2020. It was great working with such a wonderful team including photographer Dannielle Bowman and a great editorial team. Thanks too to...
CHERRY: A POEM ABOUT A SLAVE SALE
Cherry, the mother of Reverend J.W. Loguen, tireless abolitionist and contemporary of Frederick Douglass, was kidnapped as a free child and sold into slavery in an area sixteen miles from Nashville, Tennessee. As a very young woman (teen) she was exploited by "owner"...
A Poem Commemorating The 1619 anniversary: An African Renamed
The following poem by Brenda Cave-James was inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. "Emanuel" was enslaved in early 1600’s. Very fitting for the 1619 anniversary. An African Renamed To the African renamed "Emanuel the Negro"...
The 1619 Project and Bringing History to the People
...This is expressly why all voices matter; history belongs to all of us. History cannot be a zero-sum game for historians alone. As Silverstein, said in a recent tweet, “no one owns history.” The vigorous and needful debates among historians must also be debates...
