Blair L. M. Kelley writes: "In the same spirit, the museum works because its artifacts aren’t merely displayed to narrate a tidy through-line of black history’s greatest hits, from Crispus Attucks to Harriet Tubman to Frederick Douglass to Michelle Obama. Rather, its spaces remind us that from before the nation’s beginnings, African Americans have experienced … Continue reading Kelley on @NMAACH – “You can’t tell U.S. history without black history”
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EDITED: Gleeson and Lewis on the Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans
David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis, eds. Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. From University of South Carolina Press: In March 1807, within a few weeks of each other, both the United States and the United Kingdom passed laws banning the international slave trade. Two … Continue reading EDITED: Gleeson and Lewis on the Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans
INTERVIEW: Rice x Caryl Phillips on African Atlantic Memory
Alan Rice. “A Home for Ourselves in the World: Caryl Phillips on Slave Forts and Manillas as African Atlantic Sites of Memory.” Atlantic Studies 9, no. 3 (2012): 363–372. Abstract "This interview with the black Atlantic writer Caryl Phillips focuses on his non-fiction works and interrogates his ideas on the African diaspora and memorialisation, paying … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Rice x Caryl Phillips on African Atlantic Memory
REVIEW: Johnson on STN’s 18th Century French Book Trade Database
From The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe website: The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project uses database technology to map the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794. As the STN sold the works of other publishers alongside its own editions, … Continue reading REVIEW: Johnson on STN’s 18th Century French Book Trade Database
BOOK: Tillet on Slavery, Citizenship, and Racial Democracy
Salamisha Tillet. Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. via Duke University Press: "More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of … Continue reading BOOK: Tillet on Slavery, Citizenship, and Racial Democracy
BOOK: Araujo on the Public Memory of Slavery
Ana Lucia Araujo, Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic. Amherst, N.Y: Cambria Press, 2010. via Cambria Press: If recent scholarship has focused on the memory of slavery in the United States, few works have dealt with the public memory of slavery from a transnational perspective. When examining the role of … Continue reading BOOK: Araujo on the Public Memory of Slavery
Journey Stories Exhibit: “To Freedom: Tracing the Journeys of Enslaved African Americans”
Discussions about slavery continue to stir emotions. This exhibition examines the journeys experienced by enslaved Africans brought to the United States. From the journey into bondage, travels while enslaved, and escaping to freedom, voyages -- forced and voluntary -- shaped the way slavery evolved and, ultimately, ended in America. via Journey Stories | Browse Exhibits. … Continue reading Journey Stories Exhibit: “To Freedom: Tracing the Journeys of Enslaved African Americans”
WEB: Levy on Failure of the Freedman’s Bank and the Gilded Age (LOC Webcast)
ACLS Mellon Fellow Jonathan Levy discusses the failure of the Freedman Savings and Trust Company at the Library of Congress: In 1865, Congress chartered the non-profit "Freedman's Savings and Trust Company," a savings bank designed for a population of four million newly emancipated American slaves. By 1873, it had received a staggering $50,000,000 in deposits. … Continue reading WEB: Levy on Failure of the Freedman’s Bank and the Gilded Age (LOC Webcast)
Mitchell: Portrait or Postcard? The Controversy over a “Rare” Photograph of Slave Children
For those of us who work with historical photographs (particularly images from the nineteenth century, when the medium was still in its infancy) there are few things more thrilling than stumbling on an image we didn’t know existed. But finding and then identifying historical photographs with any certainty, particularly the subjects in them, is tricky … Continue reading Mitchell: Portrait or Postcard? The Controversy over a “Rare” Photograph of Slave Children
Conservator Helps Salvage Haiti’s Cultural Material
"ANNAPOLIS, Md. AP — It is slow, deliberate, frustrating, yet fulfilling work trying to preserve a peoples culture.Vicki Lee, senior conservator at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, already has made two trips with teams of experts trying to mend Haitis cultural heritage following the devastating January earthquake, and is itching to return. "It's so … Continue reading Conservator Helps Salvage Haiti’s Cultural Material
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