Category: Slavery

  • Brazil’s hidden slavery past uncovered at Valongo Wharf BBC News 2014-12-24 Julia Carneiro BBC Brasil, Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro is a city looking to the future. Major development work is underway in the city’s historic port area as it prepares to host the Olympics in 2016. But the construction effort to make all…

  • White? Black? A Murky Distinction Grows Still Murkier The New York Times 2014-12-24 Carl Zimmer In 1924, the State of Virginia attempted to define what it means to be white. The state’s Racial Integrity Act, which barred marriages between whites and people of other races, defined whites as people “whose blood is entirely white, having…

  • Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present by Jeffrey Lesser (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 45, Number 3, Winter 2015 pages 449-451 Samuel L. Baily, Professor Emeritus of History Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jeffrey Lesser, Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present (Cambridge,…

  • Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present Cambridge University Press January 2013 219 pages 19 b/w illus. 1 map 19 tables 229 x 153 x 14 mm Hardback ISBN: 9780521193627 Paperback ISBN: 9780521145350 eBook ISBN: 9781139602723 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Immigration, Ethnicity, and…

  • Brute Ideology Dissent Fall 2014 Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History; Professor of African and African American Studies; Director, Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History Harvard University Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields. Verso, 2012, 310 pp. The Problem of Slavery in…

  • Female Slaves and the Law C-SPAN: Created by Cable Lectures in History 2014-10-21 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Professor Martha Jones talked about the mid-19th century court case of Celia, a female slave who killed her master after repeated sexual assaults. Topics…

  • The Half Has Never Been Told with Edward E. Baptist, Ph.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-12-18 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-12-19, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Producer and Host Historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove…

  • Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy J. Sparks, and: Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment (review) Journal of the Early Republic Volume 34, Number 4, Winter 2014 pages 686-690 DOI: 10.1353/jer.2014.0068 Andrew N. Wegmann…

  • Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid The Atlantic 2014-11-26 Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent Violence works. Nonviolence does too. In a recent dispatch from Ferguson, Missouri, Jelani Cobb noted that President Obama’s responses to “unpunished racial injustices” constitute “a genre unto themselves.” Monday night, when Barack Obama stood before the nation to interpret…

  • Grad student Alex Finley found her roots — and more William & Mary News and Events The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 2014-11-24 Jim Ducibella, Communications Specialist This is part one of a two-story series. Check back Nov. 26 for the second part. – Ed. As a child, Alex Finley remembers going through…