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Tag: slavery

The enslaved black people of the 1960s who did not know slavery had ended

  • Posted on July 7, 2018

Originally published May 16, 2018. By Ismail Akwei >> The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 which changed the status of over 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the South from slave to…Continue Reading

Georgetown Memory Project

  • Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018

Originally published April 28, 2018. By Terrence McCoy >> The search for the lost slaves began with a simple question. Every month for two years, Richard Cellini, founder of an organization…Continue Reading

Common Place: The Lemmon Slave Case

  • Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018

Originally published Fall 2013. By Marie Tyler-McGraw and Dwight T. Pitcaithley >> In May of 1837, William “Billy” Douglas, a prosperous farmer and landholder in Bath County, at the southern end of…Continue Reading

Slavery and the American University

  • Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018

Originally published February 7, 2018. By Alex Carp >> From their very beginnings, the American university and American slavery have been intertwined, but only recently are we beginning to understand…Continue Reading

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