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This page holds the content for H-Slavery's series of weekly posts tracking content about slavery on Twitter. The series is authored by Amanda McGee of the University of Arkansas. Readers may also be interested in our earlier series flagging news stories concerning slavery, available here.
These past few weeks in the twittersphere, Christienna Fryar talked to researchers Katie Donnington, Meleisa Ono-George, and Hannah Young on women and slavery, from female slaveowners in Britain to women on Caribbean plantations. Listen to the BBC Radio3 program here.
A Dutch exhibition offers new insight into the Berbice slave uprising. Learn more here.
Two statues in central London depicting a pair of historical figures with sordid links to the transatlantic slave trade are scheduled to be removed. Find out more here.
Each year on the last Wednesday of June, dozens of people arrive by boat
This past week in the twittersphere, Robert Colby examines women's experiences during the American Civil War in his article published by Black Perspectives. Read more here.
Slave medallions are being installed across the state of Rhode Island to mark the role that various cities played in the Triangular Slave Trade. Learn more here.
Published in 2016, Jessica Marie Johnson's article,"Yet Lives and Fights': Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction" resurfaced again this week in light of the violence at the Capitol. Read more here.
These past few weeks in the Twittersphere, Julia Gaffield explains how Haiti was the first nation to permanently ban slavery and why this matters today in her article published by The Washington Post. Read it here.
A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet has been removed from downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Learn more here.
City leaders of Huntsville, Alabama, unveiled a new statue of William Hooper Council, a freedman and founder of Alabama A&M University in 1867, in downtown Huntsville. Find out more here.
A new episode of New Books Networks hosted by
In his article published by Smithsonian Magazine, Jonathan Daniel Wells investigates New York police officers who sold free Black Americans into enslavement in the years before the Civil War. Read more here.
Christy Hyman explores a 'people's geography' of escaping slavery in North Carolina in her article,
This week in the twittersphere, scholars are working to piece together the story of the Underground Railroad to Mexico, a network that helped thousands of slaves escape to south of the border. Find out more here.
In her article published by The Washington Post, Helena Andrews-Dyer uses 'Antebellum,' a recently released thriller from the producers of 'Get Out,' to examine the relationship between film history and slavery. Learn more here.
A new six-part docuseries follows Samuel L. Jackson across the globe as he traces the history of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Learn more here.
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This week in the twittersphere, Jesuits in St. Louis, Missouri, search for descendants of enslaved people forced to work at the St. Louis University, its church, and St. Stanislaus Seminary. Find out more here.
In his article, “Who Owns the Evidence of Slavery’s Violence,” Thomas Foster examines how a lawsuit against Harvard University over the ownership of daguerreotypes of enslaved men and women should encourage scholars and archivists to revisit and rethink how these images are used. Learn more here.
In a recent episode of New Books Network, Adam McNeil interviewed Jennifer Morgan on her
These past few weeks in the twittersphere, The University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Sciences announced that the Department of Women's Studies is changing its name to the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Additionally, scholarship on Tubman’s life and works will be incorporated into the curricula, programming, and service to impact the entire campus. Learn more here.
Benjamin Dodman investigates how a magazine depicting a black lawmaker as a slave in shackles cast stark light on France's failure to confront its legacies of enslavement. Learn more here.
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These past few weeks in the twittersphere, O Say Can You See, a project that makes accessible the freedom suits brought by enslaved families in the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, Maryland state courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court online, will provide full case files for 151 freedom suits brought by the Butler family, some of the earliest freedom suits in American history. Learn more here.
Published by The Washington Post, Bennett Minton’s article, “The Lies Our Textbooks Told My Generation of Virginians about Slavery,” explores the politics behind why a series of textbooks taught
These past two weeks in the twittersphere, the Selectboard of Windsor, Vermont, considered plans to rename a street to honor the life and story of Dinah Mason, an enslaved woman held in bondage by a former Vermont Supreme Court Justice. Learn more here.
The #SlaveryArchive Book Club, an online book club led by Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo and Dr. Jessica M. Johnson to discuss the history of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, is now available to stream on Youtube. Watch the first episode that discusses Vincent Brown's recent work, Tacky's Revolt, here.
After discovering her ancestors held
These past two weeks in the twittersphere, twitterstorians commemorated the Fourth of July with Frederick Douglass' speech, "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" Find it here.
In addition to the manuscript for his Fourth of July speech, family scrapbooks offering a window into Douglass' life were included in a renowned private collection relating to the abolitionist and orator that was recently acquired by Yale. Learn more here.
Exploring the relationship between the power of symbolism, currency, and the legacies of slavery, Laura Coates asks why Harriet Tubman is not yet on the twenty