Slavery and Public History
William & Mary: Eight Year Report of the Lemon Project
This article recapitulates some recent developments at W&M as it continues to examine and document its complicity with slavery and segregation. It includes a link to the eight year report encompassing activities, accomplishments, research, and directions for the future.
https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2019/qa-jody-allen-on-the-impact,-future-of-the-lemon-proj...
News: "They thought Georgetown University’s missing slaves were ‘lost.’ The truth was closer to home than anyone knew."
Dear All,
... an update in the Washington Post on the Georgetown Memory Project, available here.
Kind Regards,
David Prior
Editor, H-Slavery
Assistant Professor of History, UNM
Symposium "Slave Pasts in the Present" - April 27th and 28th, at New York University
Symposium | Slave Pasts in the Present: Narrating Slavery through the Arts, Technology, and Tourism
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University
Free and open to the public
News: Portugal confronts its slave trade past
Dear All,
A fascinating piece on slavery and public memory in Portugal: https://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-slave-trade-confronts-its-past/
Kind Regards,
David Prior
Editor, H-Slavery
Assistant Professor of History, UNM
Public History: SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR HAPPY PLANTATION NARRATIVE
Dear All,
A short piece on the great work of Cheyney McKnight: https://theoutline.com/post/3956/cheyney-mcknight-not-your-mommas-history-profile?zd=1&zi=....
Kind Regards,
David Prior
Editor, H-Slavery
Assistant Professor of History, UNM
News: Denmark Gets First Public Statue of a Black Woman, a ‘Rebel Queen’
Dear All,
Another interesting story, this time about the commemoration of a post-slavery rebellion in St. Croix.
Best,
David Prior
Editor, H-Slavery
Assistant Professor of History, UNM
News: Remarks Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of Historic Marker Commemorating the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention
Dear All,
I know some of you will be interested in the following comments from the unveiling of a historical marker in honor of the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention, which was a political landmark in the history of the post-slavery United States.
Kind Regards,
David Prior
Editor, H-Slavery
Assistant Professor of History, UNM
TOC: Journal of American Culture (special issue on Slavery in the Contemporary Imagination)
H-Slavery subscribers may be interested in the March 2018 special issue of the Journal of American Culture, on Slavery and the Contemporary Imagination, edited by Janell Hobson and Jane Caputi. The full issue can be found at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jacc.2018.41.issue-1/issuetoc
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Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, “Black Lives Matter in History Too: Slavery, Memory, and the Haitian Revolution in Chris Rock’s Top Five”