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(Via WBZ)
“In 1779, Prince Whipple and a small group of other New Hampshire slaves petitioned the state Legislature to free them.
Whipple eventually was freed by his owner, not the Legislature, which ignored the petition and did not ban slavery in New Hampshire until 1857. By then, census records showed no slaves remained in the state.
Now [...]
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“The dioceses explored the legacy of slavery and racism in various ways, many of them involving screenings of “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North,” a film created by Katrina Browne, a descendent of the DeWolf family of Maine, longtime Episcopalians who were slave traders in the late 18th and early 19th [...]
From the article:
“Documents from Britain’s national archives showed that Nathan Mayer Rothschild had allowed the use of slaves as collateral in banking dealings with a slave owner, while Freshfields’ founding partner James William Freshfield acted as a trustee in deals involving Caribbean slave plantations, the FT reported. Freshfields said it had not been aware of [...]
July 1-3, 2009
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
From the website:
Africa as a continent is lagging far behind in the global drive to build digital libraries and archives. As a continent, it [...]
Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Today there are three collections that are made available to educational, research, and cultural institutions around the world. In 2008, Aluka became part of JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization building trusted digital archives for scholarship. JSTOR makes available archives [...]
African Diaspora, Ph.D. has added two new pages:
Teaching Resources
Teaching resources are posted as found. African Diaspora, Ph.D. does not endorse the websites, lesson plans or outlines listed below. Educators should be critical and are encouraged to post questions, comments and critique below.
CFPs (Call for Papers)
Calls for Papers found here and there (but not endorsed) by [...]
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies and the West African Research Association are hosting Saharan Crossroads I: Views from the North/Carrefour saharien: le vue du nord. Conference will take place at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies.
Final Program with Abstracts available here.
Our Colored Troops — Line Officers of the First Louisiana Native Guards
February 28, 1863
Gift of the Louisiana Museum Foundation
Reproduced from Harper’s Weekly
Originally raised for Confederate service and later changed to Union, the First Native Guards was one of the Louisiana units that had black officers.
The History Carnival hosted at Cliopatria has two articles on [...]
Image Credit: Library of Congress, Washington, DC<br>
Nègres cangueiros [and] Différentes nations nègres [Slaves carrying a heavy load and Black people from different nations / Cangueiros negros e Negros de diferentes nações], from Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil [A picturesque and historical trip to Brazil / Viagem pitoresca e histórica ao Brasil], Jean [...]
