Posts Tagged ‘Slavery’
Black Suffrage: Slavery, citizenship, and securing the right to vote in Wisconsin
Descendants of slaves continue their long fight for voter rights in Wisconsin.
Read MoreMy Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader
Nigerian slave trade results in Igbo Landing mass suicide in 1803.
Read MoreJuneteenth and the future of Milwaukee
American descendants of slaves have celebrated Juneteenth for 153 years, but freedom remains elusive for many.
Read MoreHow the 14th Amendment’s Promise of Birthright Citizenship Redefined America
The 14th Amendment was ratified 150 years ago. Here’s how it attempted to stop plans to make the U.S. a white man’s country.
Read MoreMonticello recognizes the rest of Thomas Jefferson’s children
“President Thomas Jefferson was the father of his slave Sally Hemings’ children. Therefore, Monticello, where they lived and worked, is now as much the family home of my Hemings cousins and all the other slave descendants as it is mine,” says Jefferson’s 6th great-grandson.
Read MoreWhen Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, an Author Rewrote History
The annals of history are never dead and gone, only hidden effectively from the masses. Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Disterilly and its birth, is but one of those hidden facts uncovered for the World to learn of, to see of with one’s own eyes. Finally, the inclusion of the co- owner of the namesake “whiskey,” a man whom was a slave called Nearest Green, has his due in the revision of the history around the brew to include Green whom may also be the actual creator of the innocuous concoction called whiskey.
Read MoreCelebrating Juneteenth with Remembrance and Resistance
In honor of Juneteenth, the African American holiday celebrating the freeing of slaves within the Confederate states on June 19th, 1865, black groups celebrated in different ways. Find out how some chose to commemorate this day.
Read More#SaveUnderground: Aisha Hinds on Freedom Dreams and Revolutionary Art
“Underground” was more than just another television show to many and that is why so many are enraged that it has been taken off the air. Find out why in this article.
Read MoreDebunking a Myth: The Irish Were Not Slaves, Too
Historians say the idea of Irish slaves is based on a misreading of history and that the distortion is often politically motivated.
Read MoreInside a Report on Slavery and Its Legacy
A New York Times reporter investigates how, in the 1840s, New York Life, the nation’s third-largest life insurance company, sold 508 policies on enslaved men and women — and discovers who the beneficiaries were and locates some of the descendants of those insured slaves.
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