via official website: The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project makes available some 2400 advertisements that appeared in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and 1840. A collaboration between The […]
The Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University is digitizing eighteenth and nineteenth-century anti-slavery petitions: “…Included in the thousands of petitions are first-person accounts of former slaves and free […]
May 10, 2013 is France’s national day of remembrance of the slave trade, slavery and their abolition. via Comité pour la Mémoire et l’Histoire de l’Esclavage:
March 25th is United Nations International Day of Remembrance of Slavery Victims and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The theme for 2013 is ‘Forever Free: Celebrating Emancipation’ …
In the Winter 2013 issue of Emory Magazine, Emory University President James Wagner suggested the ’3/5ths compromise’ was “a way to temper ideology and continue working toward the highest aspiration,” […]
Reblogged from Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog: The University of Illinois Springfield will explore the importance of the Emancipation Proclamation in a new massive open online course (MOOC) during the spring […]
Easily the most hyped Haiti-related book to come out in the past year was Purpose: An Immigrant Story (It Books), the memoir of rapper-turned-presidential-candidate Wyclef Jean. They say Purpose is […]
Reblogged from Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog: I spent a few hours this afternoon updating my list of go-to journal titles. I announced my endeavor on Twitter and got some great […]
Call for Papers: Newberry Library Symposium, June 20-21, 2013, Chicago, IL “Pictures from an Expedition: Aesthetics of 19th-century Cartographic Exploration in the Americas” We seek historians, art historians, geographers, and […]
Carolina González Undurraga, “Los usos del honor por esclavos y esclavas: del cuerpo injuriado al cuerpo liberado (Chile, 1750-1823),” Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos [En línea], Coloquios, Puesto en línea el […]
