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
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BOOK: Miles on The Dawn of Detroit
Tiya Miles, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits. The New Press, 2017. via The New Press: "Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way … Continue reading BOOK: Miles on The Dawn of Detroit
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
BOOK: Martínez-Vergne on Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Teresita Martínez-Vergne, Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico. University of Texas Press, 1999. via UT Press: How municipal officials and the Casa de Beneficencia shaped the discourse on public and private space and thereby marginalized the worthy poor and vagrants, "liberated" Africans, indigent and unruly women, and … Continue reading BOOK: Martínez-Vergne on Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
BLOGROLL: Walton-Raji on Mapping Slavery in Indian Territory
Angela Walton-Raji on mapping enslaved people in Indian Territory using Freedmen's Bureau records: "Now it can be said that the number of enslaved people in Indian Territory was not as high as it was in states like Mississippi, or Alabama. And one might be able to say that the old maps are not wholly inaccurate … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Walton-Raji on Mapping Slavery in Indian Territory
BLOGROLL: Morford on Undoing the Colonial Myth of “Firsting” | NiCHE
Ashley Caranto Morford on de-firsting and the CHESS 2017 Summer School: "It’s not only that Devine’s map defaces and reclaims the colonial space of the gallery that makes Battle for the Woodlands such an empowering tool for and of de-firsting — it is also that this piece is literally painted overtop a nineteenth-century colonial map of Canada, … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Morford on Undoing the Colonial Myth of “Firsting” | NiCHE
VIDEO: Fuentes on Rutgers’ Ties to Slavery & Displacement of Native Americans | @DemocracyNow
Marisa Fuentes appeared on Democracy Now to discuss the Rutgers University report on slavery and disenfranchisement: "A sweeping new report reveals ties to slavery and the displacement of the Native Americans at one of the country’s top colleges. The findings about 250-year-old Rutgers University were published in a new book, "Scarlet and Black, Volume 1: … Continue reading VIDEO: Fuentes on Rutgers’ Ties to Slavery & Displacement of Native Americans | @DemocracyNow
BOOK: Krauthamer on Black Slaves and Indian Masters
Barbara Krauthamer. Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. via UNC Press: From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted … Continue reading BOOK: Krauthamer on Black Slaves and Indian Masters
ARTICLE: Deusen on Indigenous Slaves in Castile
Nancy E. van Deusen. “Seeing Indios in Sixteenth-Century Castile.” The William and Mary Quarterly 69, no. 2 (April 1, 2012): 205–234. Abstract: This article considers the construction of indigenous (indio) slave identity within the contexts of the sixteenth-century Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds. Of the more than two thousand indio slaves from Latin America who were … Continue reading ARTICLE: Deusen on Indigenous Slaves in Castile
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