Wall Street Journal

The Legal Lives of Slaves in America

In the past couple of decades, scholars have emphasized the sheer brutality of life under slavery and how that brutality stemmed directly from the fact that slavery was, above all, a business. From ...
St. Louis American

Bank of America apologizes for role in slavery

A recent report by the banking institution found that two of Bank of America’s 63 predecessor companies engaged in financial transactions that involved slaves. In 1863, Boatmen’s Bank and Southern ...

White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend slaveholders’ rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an unsuccessful mass escape on a boat

The summer of 2020 was not the first time America saw protests and violence over the treatment of African Americans. Long ...
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The Complex Role of Slavery in Building America’s Wealth

Much of the power of the Declaration of Independence rests on Thomas Jefferson’s opening line: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their ...
The Hill

Haley’s neglect of slavery and the politics of race, color and caste

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s failure to identify slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War has created a firestorm. But the press is missing an important issue when reporting on ...
Los Angeles Times

Ron DeSantis and the whitewashing of slavery’s horrors

With the news in recent days so irremediably grim — what with the mainstreaming of antisemitic drivel by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the record heat wave traceable to global warming — I found myself ...
PBS

Tracing the History of Slavery and Policing in America

BIANNA GOLODRYGA, HOST: Well, now, to another crisis facing America, a new documentary called “Sound of the Police,” examines the history between black Americans and law enforcement. Here’s a clip ...
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Three historians to share their insights on slavery’s origins in America at on-campus panel discussion.

From the moment the New York Times started to roll out installments of The 1619 Project in 2019, this painstakingly researched and groundbreaking long-form origin story heightened ongoing discussion ...
CNN

‘Scourged Back’ exposed the horror of slavery. Now it’s embroiled in America’s censorship debate

EDITOR’S NOTE: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. Depicting a crisscross of welts and scars streaked ...
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Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America

The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art partnered with President Lincoln’s Cottage in 2022 to commission an installation by Beninois artist Georges Adéagbo. Created with the goal that the ...
PBS

Tracing the History of Slavery and Policing in America

Stanley Nelson and Valerie Scoon join the show. A new documentary, "Sound of the Police," examines the history of U.S. law enforcement and Black Americans. The film’s directors, Stanley Nelson and ...