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Race, Slavery & Emancipation
Forced labor systems, resistance, abolition, and legacies across societies.
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Five Lessons from Booker T. Washington, Author of ‘Up From Slavery’
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Abraham Lincoln Once Represented a Slaveholder Trying to Keep a Black Family Enslaved
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Awareness: New app features untold stories of Black South Carolinians during the American Revolution
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Three Swiss cantons accused of historical complicity in slavery
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Family Defends Rhodes-Vivour’s Yoruba, Lagos Heritage with Historical Documents
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GU272 Descendant Joseph Stewart asks for inclusion of the Descendants in the Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation Initiative, September 1, 2016 | Georgetown University Library
10+ hour, 21+ min ago (57+ words) Join the Library as we celebrate our 230th anniversary! Offline Chat with Special Collections or email us at [email protected] For more information about any of these items, or to request a transcription of text in any of the images, please email…...
Exhibit that explores impact of Jesuit slaveholding debuts at St. Thomas
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The deadly voyage: disease and death aboard Natal’s indenture ships
14+ hour, 35+ min ago (630+ words) Indentured Indian arriving at the Bluff for quarantine, 1903. Image: Local History Museum THIS week marks the 166th anniversary of the departure of the first two ships that brought indentured workers to South Africa. The first ship, the Belvedere, departed from Calcutta…...
Thomas Jefferson’s DNA punctures America’s slavery amnesia
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