Benjamin D. Weber on the prison records from the first decade of US colonial rule in the Philippines from 1902-1912: "In this essay, I begin by contextualizing the records, and then I turn to discussing different approaches to reading them. In working with prison records of this sort, methodological issues are inseparable from ethical questions … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Weber on Prison Records from US Colonial Rule in the Philippines – Archive Journal
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AUDIO: LeFlouria on Black Women Convict Laborers in the New South
Talitha LeFlouria on Working History, the Southern Labor Studies Association podcast, discusses convict labor in the U.S. South:
ARTICLE: Webb on Slave Narratives and the Sentencing Court
Webb, Lindsey. “Slave Narratives and the Sentencing Court.” SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, September 28, 2016. "In examining how invoking conditions of confinement at sentencing engages defense attorneys as advocates and abolitionists, this Article seeks insight from a tool of abolitionists and advocates from a different time: Civil War-era slave narratives. … Continue reading ARTICLE: Webb on Slave Narratives and the Sentencing Court
DIGITAL/EXHIBIT: John W. Anderson’s Kentucky Slave Pen
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center posted a digital exhibit, "A Slave Pen's Journey, 1832-34," on domestic slave trader John W. Anderson's Kentucky slave pen. Exhibit: A Slave Pen Journey - Google Arts & Culture Credits: Exhibit Photographers — Roy Davis & Audrey Ann Artifacts — From the Collection of the National Underground Railroad Freedom … Continue reading DIGITAL/EXHIBIT: John W. Anderson’s Kentucky Slave Pen
Millward on the DOJ Report on Baltimore and the African-American Freedom Struggle
Jessica Millward writes: "African-American rights in Baltimore have always been in jeopardy. The recently released report from the Department of Justice on the Baltimore Police Department is sobering, but not surprising. "As a scholar of early African-American history in Maryland, I see similarities between laws regarding enslaved and free blacks living in Baltimore prior to … Continue reading Millward on the DOJ Report on Baltimore and the African-American Freedom Struggle
BOOK: Browne on Slavery, Surveillance and other Dark Matters
Simone Browne, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press , 2015. via Duke: "In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of … Continue reading BOOK: Browne on Slavery, Surveillance and other Dark Matters
AUDIO: Kelley on Michael Brown And Dred Scott | Here & Now
via Here & Now:There have been violent protests against the police in Ferguson, Missouri, for more than a week, since police shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown.An African-American professor watching the situation sees a link between what’s happening in Missouri today and what happened in the state in the 1800s when … Continue reading AUDIO: Kelley on Michael Brown And Dred Scott | Here & Now
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