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Black Harbour: New book explores history of slavery in Newfoundland
CBC via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe history of Black slaves in Newfoundland and Labrador is not something that has been taught, and...
York County’s Black experience: From slavery to a history center telling their story
Gannett via AOL· 7 months agoYork County’s Black experience: From slavery to a History and Culture Center telling their story...
'Out of the Jaws of Hell!': Kentucky’s history of anti-slavery prisoners must not be forgotten
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAfter serving 12 years behind prison walls, Rev. Calvin Fairbank was set free in 1864. Once he...
The Long and Gruesome History of the Battle Over American Textbooks
Esquire via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHistorian Donald Yacovone did not set out to write a book about white supremacy. A lifetime...
Op-Ed: American history is a parade of horrors — and also heroes
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJohn Brown, an evangelical militia leader who was hanged for trying to arm enslaved people for an...
A new book reveals an ‘overlooked’ chapter in Abraham Lincoln’s story
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOn a Tuesday evening in the nation’s capital, a clock chimes loudly just as Harold Holzer is about...
Texas Educators Propose Slavery Be Taught As 'Involuntary Relocation'
The Root via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRepublican-led states are continuing to remake Black history into a clean-cut retelling with...
Education proposal in Texas would replace ‘slavery’ with ‘involuntary relocation’
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA working group of Texas educators wants to omit the word “slavery” from second-grade social studies...
Fashion History Lesson: the Origins and Recent Strides of the U.S. Garment Labor Movement
Fashionista via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe fight for labor rights in apparel manufacturing dates back to slavery, and it's still going...
What’s a Non-White Voter Anyway?
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFrom the Stirewalt on Politics on The Dispatch John F. Kennedy, making a speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) The Last Hurrah was a very fine...