Jessica Marie Johnson and Martha Jones discuss their Black Womanhood course on WYPR: The course is co-taught by Professor Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, and Professor of History, at Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Professor Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor in the Center for Africana … Continue reading AUDIO: Johnson and Jones on #BlackWomanhood | WYPR
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The Junto Blog Announces New Bloggers
Looking forward to the Junto reboot featuring new bloggers, including historians of slavery Vanessa Holden and Ebony Jones. Also new: Carla Cevasco, an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and scholar of food, medicine and the body, and material culture in early America and the Atlantic world. Elbra David, who recently finished a … Continue reading The Junto Blog Announces New Bloggers
CFP: Slavery in the Machine (@sxarchipelagos, Guest Editor: @jmjafrx)
Jessica Marie Johnson writes: If you haven't submitted your abstract for Slavery in the Machine, a special section of sx archipelagos, there is still time! Submit today. sx archipelagos is now accepting submissions for our upcoming special section "Slavery in the Machine," guest edited by Jessica Marie Johnson. This special section aims to highlight scholarship … Continue reading CFP: Slavery in the Machine (@sxarchipelagos, Guest Editor: @jmjafrx)
VIDEO: Charity Folks (Making History Trailer)
Making History launches with a profile on Charity Folks: "Making History is a groundbreaking platform dedicated to the discovery and remembrance of women’s stories globally. This project is being launched as an eight-part digital series beginning with a profile on Charity Folks--a woman born into slavery, whose unprecedented accumulation of real estate led to financial … Continue reading VIDEO: Charity Folks (Making History Trailer)
DIGITAL: Lander’s ESSSS Project Featured in NEH Humanities
The Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS) project, led by Jane Landers, featured in NEH Humanities: "Until recently, the names and lives of individuals like Ana, Bartolome Joseph, and Francisco—and millions of others who toiled on the sugar plantations of colonial Cuba or in the mines of eighteenth-century Brazil—were thought to have vanished. … Continue reading DIGITAL: Lander’s ESSSS Project Featured in NEH Humanities
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
DIGITAL/RESOURCE: The Domestic Slave Trade Collection by AAME | Schomburg
Resources on the U.S. Domestic Slave Trade compiled by researchers at the Schomburg via In Motion: The African American Migration Experience. Explore: The Domestic Slave Trade: AAME
DIGITAL: The Emilie Davis Diaries
On the project: "Emilie Davis was an African-American woman living in Philadelphia during the U.S. Civil War. This website is a transcription of Emilie’s three pocket diaries for the years 1863, 1864, and 1865. In them, she recounts black Philadelphians’ celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation, nervous excitement during the battle of Gettysburg, and their collective … Continue reading DIGITAL: The Emilie Davis Diaries
DIGITAL: African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
Explore: "Within this web presentation, the Massachusetts Historical Society brings together historical manuscripts and rare published works that serve as a window upon the lives of African Americans in Massachusetts from the late seventeenth century through the abolition of slavery under the Massachusetts Constitution in the 1780s. "Although the complex role of African Americans, both … Continue reading DIGITAL: African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
DIGITAL: Frederick Douglass in Baltimore: 1836-1838
Digital project mapping Frederick Douglass's life in Baltimore: "In 1836, following his failed escape attempt on the Eastern Shore, Douglass returned to Baltimore at the order of Thomas Auld. In his three autobiographies, Douglass goes to some lengths to account for this unexpected action on Auld's part, as he had previously been threatened with being … Continue reading DIGITAL: Frederick Douglass in Baltimore: 1836-1838
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