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Trace
Periodically we respond or address issues that surface from our reading. Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape is a recently published work by Mount Holyoke earth science professor Lauret Savoy that merits attention. Her writing is lyrical and … Continue reading
Posted in African American History, ancestors, ethnic studies, Native Americans, slavery, Uncategorized
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Skill and Talent
In several posts over the past months, passing reference has been made to the fact that European explorers and conquerors were accompanied in the “New World” by Africans, many of whom were enslaved. Yet in most cases, until recently, people … Continue reading
Posted in African American History, African Diaspora, Native Americans, slavery
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The First and the Forced
Over the last two weeks, the issues of law and race surfaced while board members were traveling in the Deep South (Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi). Previously these states were frontier regions, territories exchanged frequently among European nations, and heavily populated … Continue reading
Posted in African American History, American legal system, ethnic studies, Native Americans
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Myths of Creation
In the British Virginia Colony during the summer of 1619, two events took place within weeks of each other that would shape the United States of America in profoundly contradictory ways. One event was the initial legislative assembly of Englishmen … Continue reading
Posted in African American History, African Diaspora, American legal system, American politics, ancestors, descendants of slaves, ethnic studies, Native Americans, Slave economy, slave ports, slavery, transatlantic slave trade
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Credit and Debt: A World of Trouble?
Although this blog writer is not a trained economist, patterns can be discerned. Debt, credit, and product are the means to power and control for a select group of people in the world. The history and development of the Western … Continue reading
Posted in Native Americans, Slave economy, slavery
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Canada: Africans to the North
According to the 2006 Canadian Census, 2.5 percent of its citizens are of African descent. Many surmise that this represents people entirely emigrating from the US on the Underground Railroad, from the West Indies and Africa during the 19th Century … Continue reading
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Why Africans? A Perfect Storm of 159 Years
As a student of American history in college my ongoing questions were, ” Why Africans became the slave of choice in the Western Hemisphere. How and why was their enslavement so pervasive?” Responses ranged from physical: easier to identify; hardier … Continue reading
Posted in African American History, captured Africans, Native Americans, slavery, transatlantic slave trade
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Any Day Will Do
Recently someone asked why we selected August 23rd as the day the project will remember the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition. I could be flippant and state that it’s arbitrary, any day would do since enslavement occurred 365 days/year, … Continue reading
Posted in African American History, African Diaspora, Native Americans, slavery, transatlantic slave trade
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