ARCHAEOLOGY

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An early nineteenth-century clay pipestem, one of many unearthed in the slave quarters at the former Belvoir tobacco plantation on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, has allowed archaeologists to rescue a lost history. DNA yielded by the seemingly unremarkab

Who Do You Think You Are?

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The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) has launched a digital database that reveals the lives of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and indigenous heritage going back over 400 years. Switching the Lens (bit.ly/LMA-BAME) is the result of work by

BBC History Magazine

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“One of the myths that surrounds enslaved women is that men did all the hard labour. But plantation records reveal that on many of the large estates across the West Indies, women made up the vast majority of the field gangs. This could be because wom

The Christian Science Monitor

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Why African Americans are digging into their past on the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in the U.S.

NPR

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Mikael Owunna's new book captures the stories of LGBTQ African immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers reconciling their identity and their heritage.

AFAR

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“I CAN TAKE YOU TO YOUR PEOPLE.” The phrase was uttered by the elder who had taken my hand shortly after I arrived in a small Ghanaian village in 1997. And though the words were simple, they pointed to a diffcult fact: Black people displaced from the

Global Voices

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In the 16 years since its founding, the Feira Preta fair has succeeded in strengthening and emphasizing the Brazilian black identity.

History Revealed

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bit.ly/BritainSlaveTradePod To what extent was the British Empire powered by slaves? In this episode, broadcast in June 2020, historian Christer Petley explores the role of enslaved people in Britain’s success in the 18th and 19th centuries, and con

History Revealed

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The Normans brought a new type of building to Britain: castles. Before 1066, there were only a smattering of castles in the country, but by William’s death in 1087, around 500 had been constructed in England and Wales. Pre-1066, between ten and 30 pe

C Magazine

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While researching black collections at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, I came across a curious object. Among the vertical files was a box containing a speech by Rinaldo Walcott, crumpled into a paper ball. Walcott, I was told, had crumpled the

NPR

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"The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free," states General Order No. 3.

Literary Hub

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“For the first time, more blacks are coming to the United States from Africa than during the slave trade.” So begins Sam Roberts, chronicling recent African migrations to the United States in 2005, but suggestively framing the phenomenon by invoking

Guernica Magazine

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Using archival images across Britain and Jamaica, the writer and academic discusses the knotty colonial histories beneath our everyday soil.

TIME

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For tourists from thousands of miles away or for school-kids right in Washington, D.C., the first stop for anyone seeking a window into American democracy is usually the National Mall. For more than 200 years, however, the story it tells has been inc

Wallpaper

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In a year when racial injustices reached a tipping point, Julien saw some of his works take on a new urgency. Rediscovered images from his very first film, Who Killed Colin Roach? (1983), showed at London’s Royal Academy of Arts and reflect on the de

People

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NASHVILLE’S BECCA STEVENS TURNS DISCARDED LIFE VESTS INTO OPPORTUNITY—AND HOPE—FOR SYRIAN WOMEN REFUGEES IN GREECE

Global Voices

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Photograph taken during the Meeting of the Indigenous and Afro-descendant Communicators in Oaxaca, México, 2015. Credit: Mikel Blasco/CCEMx (Spanish Cultural Center). Image used with permission from the Digital Citizenship Laboratory. The indigenous

The Atlantic

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In Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston challenges the American public’s narrow view of the African continent, the transatlantic slave trade, and the diasporic cultures that came as a result of it.

Who Do You Think You Are?

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bit.ly/victorys-children Free As the nation celebrated the 75th anniversary of VE Day in May, this poignant 45-minute video from 2015 sheds light on the legacy of the day. The documentary follows filmmaker Derek Smith’s efforts to track down and

AFAR

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THE BUSSA EMANCIPATION STATUE is unmissable. Located in the middle of a busy roundabout, it depicts a man in tattered shorts, his hands outstretched, broken chains hanging from the shackles on his wrists, and his eyes looking up at the blue Caribbean

All About History

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In the years before the voyage of the Beagle, the young Darwin was something of an aimless disappointment to his father, who had invested a great deal of money in his son. His scientific curiosity clashed with his interest in becoming a clergyman, so

Empire Australasia

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OUT NOW (STAN) EPISODES VIEWED 7 OF 7 SHOWRUNNERS Ethan Hawke, Mark Richard CAST Ethan Hawke, Joshua Caleb Johnson, Hubert Point-Du Jour Opening on the words, “All of this is true...most of it happened”, The Good Lord Bird is historical revisionis

Manhattan Institute

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The Barcelona attack reminds us that jihadists declared war on the West long ago—and that the war goes on.

Global Voices

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"I wonder how many children "whiten" themselves socially without even realizing it. They are...ignorant of their ancestors and of the people who fought so history wouldn't repeat itself."

BBC History Magazine

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So many East India Company men settled in Berkshire in the 18th century that it became known as ‘England’s Hindoostan’. One of those men, Sir Francis Sykes, made his fortune collecting Indian taxes with the help of an Indian merchant named Cantoo Bab

Futurity

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The United States made two promises—and it kept one but not the other. The tale can help us understand the existing wealth gap between African Americans and white Americans. One of those promises, that of “40 acres and a mule,” officially was made in

BBC History Magazine

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During the American Revolution, the British made an extraordinary promise. They issued proclamations informing all slaves whose owners had joined the rebellion that, if they came over to the British lines, they would be freed. Thousands did exactly t

Who Do You Think You Are?

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An index to mental-hospital registers held by Surrey History Centre, listing patients’ names, ages and dates of admission. Details of local militiamen and naval militia from records at Cornwall Record Office. An index to records, with some details of

Civil War Times

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WHITE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS wrote thousands of letters that today help us understand their motivations, fears, and hopes. But the army of African-American slaves in Confederate camps (P. 28) and runaways serving the men in blue left scant, if any, recor

Cobblestone

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At the turn of the 20th century, more than 90 percent of black Americans lived in the South, where they endured violence and racial segregation. But in the early 1910s, as many as 500,000 African Americans fled the South. They left behind lives worki