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Dear All, 

Thanks to A J Aiseirithe for passing these along:

Ann Gordon on the complicated legacy of woman suffrage: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/how-to-celebrate-a-complicated-win-for-women.html

August 30, 2018 

By Julia Gaffield

Crowds cheered as local lawmakers on August 18 unveiled a street sign showing that Rogers Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn would now be called Jean-Jacques Dessalines Boulevard, after a Haitian slave turned revolutionary general.

Technology's Stories has launched its latest issue (www.technologystories.org), where we explore four perspectives on maintenance:

John Dean Davis, "Levees, Slavery, and Maintenance"

Daniel Levinson Wilk, "A Brief Episode in the History of Dusting"

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Investigating Mid-Atlantic Plantations:  Slavery, Economies, and Space

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Investigating Mid-Atlantic Plantations:  Slavery, Economies, and Space

Dear All, 

Some of you will take interest in the following news:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/21/silent-sam-a-racist-jim-crow-era-speech-inspired-unc-students-to-topple-a-confederate-monument-on-campus/?utm_term=.57f02cc892bd

Kind Regards, 

David Prior
Editor, H-Slavery
Assistant Professor of History, UNM