Towards A Weeping Time Memorial
Dear Baileyblog readers, As you know, I have been working on the story of The Weeping Time for almost 15 years. Though this was such a sad and devastating event, the one silver lining of late is that more and more people are finding out about the 400+ enslaved...
An upcoming talk: The Weeping Time: Why It Matters
Hello Baileyblog Readers, This week I invite you to a talk that I am giving on Wed, June 2 at 6pm called, ” The Weeping Time: Why It Matters.” Here is the Facebook event invite: https://fb.me/e/WJn1Kesk I hope one and all can listen in. I also want to...Harriet Tubman Center’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission concludes
Dear Baileyblog Readers Watch this space for further updates. For now, see recent Pipe Dream article on the work of Binghamton University’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Harriet Tubman Center’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission concludes ...Reparations Update and a Poem for George Floyd by Brenda Cave-James
This is what I wrote about it a couple of months ago about the history of reparations and the ways in which America could lead by example: https://theconversation.com/revisiting-reparations-is-it-time-for-the-us-to-pay-its-debt-for-the-legacy-of-slavery-151972 And...
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)
