Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge University Press, 2018). via Cambridge: "Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in … Continue reading BOOK: Jones on Race, Rights and Birthright Citizenship
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BLOGROLL: African American Civil War Soldiers on Twitter: Toussaint L’Ouverture Delany
A thread, via the African American Civil War Soldiers Twitter account: "Today one of our volunteers (trudej) transcribed this record of Toussaint L'Ouverture Delany, son of the renowned abolitionist and founder of black nationalism Martin Delany. He currently holds the award for the coolest name we've transcribed so far." See below: https://twitter.com/transcribe_usct/status/977370100289495040 https://twitter.com/transcribe_usct/status/977402067059924993?s=20
DIGITAL/RESOURCE: Murray County Museum – Vann Slaves Remember
A digital resource from 2003, hosted by the Murray County Museum and compiled by Herman McDaniel, excerpting WPA ex-slave interviews that reference the Vanns, a Cherokee slaveholding family from the 19th century: "The people conducting the interviews from 1936-1938 were instructed to write the material gleaned from the interviews as closely as possible to the … Continue reading DIGITAL/RESOURCE: Murray County Museum – Vann Slaves Remember
ARTICLE: Bell on Self-Emancipating Women, Civil War, and the Union Army in Louisiana and Georgia
Karen Cook Bell, “Self-Emancipating Women, Civil War, and the Union Army in Southern Louisiana and Lowcountry Georgia, 1861–1865,” The Journal of African American History 101, no. 1–2 (January 1, 2016): 1–22. "In 1861, ten enslaved African American women from the Contrell plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana, ran away along with twenty enslaved men.1 … Continue reading ARTICLE: Bell on Self-Emancipating Women, Civil War, and the Union Army in Louisiana and Georgia
BLOGROLL/RESOURCE: Handler and Tuite on Louisiana Native Guards Photo Falsification
Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite, Jr. describe the fraudulent identification of a Civil War photograph of United States Colored Troops as members of the Confederate army's First Louisiana Native Guard: "The actual 1st Louisiana Native Guards, consisting of Afro-Creoles, was formed of about 1,500 men in April 1861 and was formally accepted as … Continue reading BLOGROLL/RESOURCE: Handler and Tuite on Louisiana Native Guards Photo Falsification
BLOGROLL: Spillers on Passport to Freedom | the A-Line
Hortense Spillers writes: "For all its admirable qualities, the U.S Constitution in the moment of its appearance could never have offered other than a framework into which the moving parts of the future could be put. To my mind, thinking otherwise is to embrace specious reasoning, if not an outright intellectual fraud. The framers, I … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Spillers on Passport to Freedom | the A-Line
ARTICLE: Saillant on Funeral Ceremonies in the Sea Islands
John Saillant, "'All Is for the Wind:" Notes on Funeral and Baptism Ceremonies on a Georgia Sea Island, c. 1868–1887," Journal of Southern Religion (19) (2017): jsreligion.org/vol19/saillant Saillant writes: "In 1843, black Baptists from Savannah, Georgia formed the First African Baptist church of Saint Catherines Island. Most or all of these congregants were slaves in … Continue reading ARTICLE: Saillant on Funeral Ceremonies in the Sea Islands
BLOGROLL: Miles on Slavery in the Midwest | @NYTimes
Tiya Miles writes: "The violent furor that erupted this summer over the removal of Confederate monuments in several cities was a stark reminder that Americans remain trapped in the residue of slavery and racial violence. In confronting this difficult truth, our attention is naturally drawn to the South. And rightfully so: The South was the … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Miles on Slavery in the Midwest | @NYTimes
BOOK: Miles on the African-Indigenous Ties That Bind
Tiya Miles, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. via UC Press: "This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, … Continue reading BOOK: Miles on the African-Indigenous Ties That Bind
BLOGROLL: Johnson on How to Memorialize Slavery in @Chronicle
Rashauna Johnson (interviewed by the Chronicle) discusses history, slavery, and her new book Slavery's Metropolis: "In the aftermath of Charlottesville’s violent white-supremacist rally, Americans are waging a renewed culture war over Confederate monuments. But a more complicated question lurks beneath the upheaval over what to do with these statues, one that will linger once the … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Johnson on How to Memorialize Slavery in @Chronicle
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