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:...
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...
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...
BBC remembers 400th anniversary of African presence in Colonial Va. and US
As many of you know, The New York Times has done an amazing job in commemorating the 400th anniversary of African presence in Colonial Virginia through The 1619 Project. This anniversary has an impact on so many continents so it is fitting that the BBC has also chosen...
Go see Harriet the film
Dear Readers The movie Harriet is on screens across the country and many people are flocking to see it. I promise to write a review when I do but for now, I thought it good timing to revisit one of my previous blogs about Harriet Tubman who endlessly fascinates me. ...
Anne C. Bailey and company write about race, slavery, refugees, diasporas, African American, Caribbean and African studies, human rights, history, and memory. We publish every weekend.
Find Anne C. Bailey's non-fiction book : The Weeping Time:
Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History (Beacon Press)
