Archive for February, 2010
“Listed on the Brigham Young Monument on Temple Square are the members of the first pioneer company to enter the Salt Lake Valley in July 1847. Three of the names are set just a little apart from the others under the subhead: Colored Servants. These are Green Flake, Oscar Crosby and Hark Lay. Crosby and [...]
Shawna Mazur writes: “Repeatedly throughout history, African Americans have played a role in shaping our country’s development. The years previous to and during the War of 1812 were no exception. Slavery was increasingly becoming an issue for the United States and Canadian governments. The differences between the two country’s policies often meant the difference between [...]
“After the death of John Hope Franklin last year, tributes to the distinguished historian cascaded down. A major newspaper in North Carolina declared that Franklin, who retired from Duke University, “gave definition to the African-American experience.” That was a slight exaggeration, overlooking as it did predecessors such as Carter G. Woodson, creator of what has [...]
Vaughan, Megan. Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Overview: “The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as [...]
CFP: States of Freedom: Freedom of States cross-post from H-Net Duke University and University of the West Indies-Mona Symposium June 17 and 18, 2010, Kingston, Jamaica. How are notions of freedom and governance practiced and contested within and across national spaces in the Caribbean postcolonial? This symposium explores questions of freedom and governance generated from [...]
Centering Families in Atlantic Worlds, 1500–1800 Call for Papers A conference co-sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas, Austin. February 27–March 1, 2011, University of Texas at Austin. “For people in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, families mattered. Families functioned as key [...]
Green, Debra D. “African Mexicans in Spanish Slave Societies in America.” Journal of Black Studies 40 (2010): 683-699. Abstract: “This article examines the sources of the discourse on African Mexicans, often referred to as Afromexicans, in an effort to structure a more extensive foundation for cultural work. Taking an Afrocentric approach to the study of [...]
Echeruo, Michael J. C. “Edward W. Blyden, “The Jewish Question,” and the Diaspora: Theory and Practice.” Journal of Black Studies 40, no. 4 (March 1, 2010): 544-565. http://jbs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/4/544. Abstract: “Dr. Blyden’s booklet, “The Jewish Question,” has been largely ignored, as it relates not only to the Jewish Question, proper, but also to the question of [...]
“A California peak formerly known as Negrohead Mountain has been officially renamed in honour of the black pioneer who settled there in 1869. The 619-metre peak near Malibu, became Ballard Mountain after John Ballard, a blacksmith and former slave. Dozens of Ballard’s relatives attended the renaming ceremony on Saturday. The name originally contained an even [...]
“ST. CROIX – A bill that would add a holiday commemorating the 1878 Fireburn to the list of government holidays will go before the full Senate for consideration, after the Rules and Judiciary Committee gave the measure a nod on Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Terrence Nelson, notes the significance of the 1878 laborers’ [...]
