Tag: Ira Berlin

  • The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The Journal of American History Volume 100, Issue 1 (June 2013) pages 21-45 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jat082 Pierre Force, Professor of French and History Columbia University n 1813 a free man of color named Charles Decoudreau living in New Orleans went to court…

  • Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests The New York Times 2012-07-30 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Obama’s biography — son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his roots did not…

  • Professor Ira Berlin: Slavery U.S. History: Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium Meet the Historians 1999-04-12 Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor of History University of Maryland These renowned historians and experts chatted with students online. Read the transcripts. Ira Berlin is a leading historian of southern and African-American life. He is Professor of History at the…

  • Family Tree’s Startling Roots The New York Times 2012-03-19 Felicia Lee Thirty-nine lashes “well laid” on her bare back and an extension of her indentured servitude was Elizabeth Banks’s punishment for “fornication & Bastardy with a negroe slave,” according to a stark June 20, 1683, court document from York County, Va. Through the alchemy of…