Item Type | Web Page |
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URL | http://www.pulitzercenter.org/builder/lesson/reading-guide-quotes-key-terms-and-questions-26504 |
Date | 2019-08-13T10:37:48-04:00 |
Accessed | 2019-08-18 22:26:07 |
Language | en |
Abstract | This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for each of over 30 essays and creative works that compose The 1619 Project. |
Website Title | Pulitzer Center |
Short Title | Reading Guide |
Item Type | Attachment |
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URL | https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf |
Accessed | 2019-08-18 22:26:00 |
Link Mode | 1 |
MIME Type | application/pdf |
Item Type | Web Page |
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URL | http://www.pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum |
Accessed | 2019-08-18 22:25:26 |
Language | en |
Abstract | The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date. Here you will find reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into your classroom. Wondering where to start? Dive into our Reading Guide. |
Website Title | Pulitzer Center |
Item Type | Magazine Article |
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Author | Annette Gordon-Reed |
URL | https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017-12-12/americas-original-sin |
Issue | January/February 2018 |
Publication | Foreign Affairs |
ISSN | 0015-7120 |
Date | 2017/12/12 |
Accessed | 2019-01-15 18:37:31 |
Library Catalog | www.foreignaffairs.com |
Language | en-US |
Abstract | Slavery’s legacy in the United States stems not only from the institution itself, but also from the system of white supremacy it established. The country is only now undergoing a long-overdue reckoning with that system. |
Item Type | Blog Post |
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URL | https://www.aaihs.org/the-fallacy-of-1619-rethinking-the-history-of-africans-in-early-america/ |
Accessed | 2019-01-14 17:38:43 |
Language | en-US |
Short Title | The Fallacy of 1619 |
Item Type | Blog Post |
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URL | https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/todays-voter-suppression-tactics-have-a-150-year-history |
Date | 7/26/2018 |
Accessed | 2019-01-14 17:38:38 |
Language | en-US |
Abstract | Made possible by On March 13, 1902, as the Alabama River began to rise, a black middle-aged postal clerk named... |
Blog Title | Talking Points Memo |
Item Type | Blog Post |
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URL | https://www.publicbooks.org/citizens-150-years-of-the-14th-amendment/ |
Date | 2018-07-09T15:00:13+00:00 |
Accessed | 2019-01-14 17:38:28 |
Language | en-US |
Abstract | It is possible to tell the story of the 14th Amendment’s adoption as one driven by the maneuvering of highly placed lawmakers—judges and members of ... |
Blog Title | Public Books |
Short Title | Citizens |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Eric Foner |
URL | http://search.proquest.com/docview/1638238268/abstract/72D8C046F826485EPQ/1 |
Rights | Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2015 |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 13-27 |
Publication | The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Normal |
ISSN | 15377814 |
Date | Jan 2015 |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org.proxy2.cl.msu.edu/10.1017/S1537781414000516 |
Accessed | 2019-01-09 15:22:03 |
Library Catalog | ProQuest |
Language | English |
Abstract | What follows is a written reproduction of a forum held at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in San Francisco in April 2013. The forum commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Eric Foner's Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. Kate Masur (Northwestern University) organized and introduced the discussion, and the commentators in order of speaking were the following: * Heather Andrea Williams, The University of Pennsylvania * Gregory P. Downs, City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York * Thavolia Glymph, Duke University * Steven Hahn, The University of Pennsylvania * Eric Foner, Columbia University The written version on the following pages largely preserves the feel and tone of the original oral presentations by the contributors. However, given the opportunity for reflection inherent in the published word, the authors and editors have made some small changes to enhance readability. |
Item Type | Book |
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Author | Seth Rockman |
Editor | Cathy Matson |
Edition | 1st edition |
Place | Baltimore |
Publisher | The Johns Hopkins University Press |
ISBN | 978-0-8018-9007-9 |
Date | 2009 |
Library Catalog | Amazon |
Language | English |
Abstract | Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how race, sex, nativity, and legal status determined the economic opportunities and vulnerabilities of working families in the early republic.In the era of Frederick Douglass, Baltimore's distinctive economy featured many slaves who earned wages and white workers who performed backbreaking labor. By focusing his study on this boomtown, Rockman reassesses the roles of race and region and rewrites the history of class and capitalism in the United States during this time. Rockman describes the material experiences of low-wage workers―how they found work, translated labor into food, fuel, and rent, and navigated underground economies and social welfare systems. He also explores what happened if they failed to find work or lost their jobs. Rockman argues that the American working class emerged from the everyday struggles of these low-wage workers. Their labor was indispensable to the early republic’s market revolution, and it was central to the transformation of the United States into the wealthiest society in the Western world. Rockman’s research includes construction site payrolls, employment advertisements, almshouse records, court petitions, and the nation’s first "living wage" campaign. These rich accounts of day laborers and domestic servants illuminate the history of early republic capitalism and its consequences for working families. |
Short Title | Scraping By |
# of Pages | 368 |
Item Type | Book |
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Author | W. Caleb McDaniel |
Edition | 1 edition |
Place | Place of publication not identified |
Publisher | LSU Press |
ISBN | 978-0-8071-6230-9 |
Date | July 27, 2015 |
Library Catalog | Amazon |
Language | English |
Abstract | Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the Shear James Broussard First Book PrizeIn The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery, W. Caleb McDaniel sets forth a new interpretation of the Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and Europe. The group of American reformers known as "Garrisonians" included, at various times, some of the most significant and familiar figures in the history of the antebellum struggle over slavery: Wendell Phillips, Frederick Douglass, and William Lloyd Garrison himself. Between 1830 and 1870, American abolitionists led by Garrison developed extensive networks of friendship, correspondence, and intellectual exchange with a wide range of European reformers -- Chartists, free trade advocates, Irish nationalists, and European revolutionaries. Garrison signaled the importance of these ties to his movement with the well-known cosmopolitan motto he printed on every issue of his famous newspaper, The Liberator: "Our Country is the World -- Our Countrymen are All Mankind." That motto serves as an impetus for McDaniel's study, which shows that Garrison and his movement must be placed squarely within the context of transatlantic mid-nineteenth-century reform. Through exposure to contemporary European thinkers -- such as Alexis de Tocqueville, Giuseppe Mazzini, and John Stuart Mill -- Garrisonian abolitionists came to understand their own movement not only as an effort to mold public opinion about slavery but also as a measure to defend democracy in an Atlantic World still dominated by aristocracy and monarchy. While convinced that democracy offered the best form of government, Garrisonians recognized that the persistence of slavery in the United States revealed problems with the political system. They identified the participation of minority agitators as part of the process in a healthy democratic society.Ultimately, Garrisonians' transatlantic activities reveal their deep patriotism, their interest in using public opinion to affect American politics, and their similarities to other antislavery groups. By following Garrisonian abolitionists across the Atlantic Ocean and exhaustively documenting their international networks, McDaniel challenges many of the timeworn stereotypes that still cling to their movement. He argues for a new image of Garrison's band as politically savvy, intellectually sophisticated liberal reformers, who were well informed about transatlantic debates regarding the problem of democracy. |
Short Title | The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery |
# of Pages | 360 |
Item Type | Book |
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Author | Sterling Stuckey |
Edition | 2 edition |
Place | Oxford ; New York |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN | 978-0-19-993167-5 |
Date | October 28, 2013 |
Library Catalog | Amazon |
Language | English |
Abstract | Twenty-five years after its original publication, Oxford has released a new edition of Sterling Stuckey's ground-breaking study, Slave Culture. A leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, Stuckey explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture. He argues that at the time of emancipation, slaves still remained essentially African in culture, a conclusion that has had profound implications for theories of black liberation and race relations in America.Drawing evidence from the anthropology and art history of Central and West African cultural traditions and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey reveals an intrinsic Pan-African impulse that contributed to the formation of the black ethos in slavery. He presents fascinating profiles of such nineteenth-century figures as David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglass, as well as detailed examinations into the lives and careers of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson in this century.The second edition, which includes a Foreword by historian John Stauffer, will reintroduce Stuckey's masterpiece to a wider audience. Stukey provides a new introduction that looks at the life of the book and the impact it has had on the field of African-American scholarship, as well as how the field has changed in the 25 years since its original publication. |
Short Title | Slave Culture |
# of Pages | 512 |
Item Type | Book |
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Author | George P. Rawick |
Author | Che Rawick |
Publisher | Greenwood Publishing Group |
ISBN | 978-0-8371-6312-3 |
Date | 1972 |
Library Catalog | Google Books |
Language | en |
Abstract | Product information not available. |
# of Pages | 474 |
Item Type | Attachment |
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URL | http://courses.umass.edu/bh391/read/rawick_001.pdf |
Accessed | 2016-07-07 11:58:21 |
Link Mode | 1 |
MIME Type | application/pdf |
Item Type | Web Page |
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URL | http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html |
Accessed | 2016-07-07 11:57:25 |
Item Type | Web Page |
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URL | http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html |
Accessed | 2016-07-07 11:37:48 |
Item Type | Web Page |
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URL | https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html |
Accessed | 2016-07-07 11:37:44 |
Item Type | Web Page |
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URL | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm |
Accessed | 2016-07-07 11:37:39 |
Item Type | Web Page |
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URL | http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/about.html |
Accessed | 2016-07-07 11:37:36 |
Item Type | Blog Post |
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URL | http://digitalinnovation.unc.edu/projects/slave-narrative-project/ |
Accessed | 2016-07-07 11:37:29 |
Item Type | Magazine Article |
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Author | Rebecca Onion |
Author | Steve Vladeck |
URL | http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2016/07/can_wpa_slave_narratives_be_trusted_or_are_they_tainted_by_depression_era.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top |
Publication | Slate |
ISSN | 1091-2339 |
Date | July 6 2016 |
Accessed | 2016-07-07 11:37:17 |
Library Catalog | Slate |
Language | en-US |
Abstract | In the 1930s, the federal government sent (mostly white) interviewers to learn about slavery from former slaves. Can we trust the stories they brought back? |
Item Type | Book |
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Author | Edward E. Baptist |
Edition | null edition |
Place | New York |
Publisher | Basic Books |
ISBN | 978-0-465-00296-2 |
Date | September 9, 2014 |
Library Catalog | Amazon |
Language | English |
Abstract | Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Until the Civil War, Baptist explains, the most important American economic innovations were ways to make slavery ever more profitable. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from enslaved African Americans. Thus the United States seized control of the world market for cotton, the key raw material of the Industrial Revolution, and became a wealthy nation with global influence.Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. It forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about slavery’s end—and created a culture that sustains America’s deepest dreams of freedom. |
Short Title | The Half Has Never Been Told |
# of Pages | 528 |
Item Type | Book |
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Author | LORENA S. WALSH |
URL | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807895924_walsh |
Publisher | University of North Carolina Press |
ISBN | 978-0-8078-3234-9 |
Date | 2010 |
Accessed | 2016-04-18 22:17:04 |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Abstract | Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture.Walsh focuses on the operation of more than thirty individual plantations and on the decisions that large planters made about how they would run their farms. She argues that, in the mid-seventeenth century, Chesapeake planter elites deliberately chose to embrace slavery. Prior to 1763 the primary reason for large planters' debt was their purchase of capital assets--especially slaves--early in their careers. In the later stages of their careers, chronic indebtedness was rare.Walsh's narrative incorporates stories about the planters themselves, including family dynamics and relationships with enslaved workers. Accounts of personal and family fortunes among the privileged minority and the less well documented accounts of the suffering, resistance, and occasional minor victories of the enslaved workers add a personal dimension to more concrete measures of planter success or failure. |
Short Title | Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit |
Item Type | Book |
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Author | John B. Boles |
URL | http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt130j8mr |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
ISBN | 978-0-8131-0161-3 |
Date | 1984 |
Accessed | 2016-04-18 22:17:01 |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Abstract | This interpretation of the black experience in the South revealing emphasizes the evolution of slavery over time and the emergence of a rich, hybrid African American culture. From the incisive discussion on the origins of slavery in the Chesapeake colonies, John Boles embarks on an interpretation of a vast body of demographic, anthropological, and comparative scholarship to explore the character of black bondage in the American South. On such diverse issues as black population growth, the strength of the slave family, the efficiency and profitability of slavery, the diet and health care of bondsmen, the maturation of slave culture, the varieties of slave resistance, and the participation of blacks in the Civil War, <i>Black Southerners</i> provides a balanced and judicious treatment. |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Lorena S. Walsh |
URL | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5309/willmaryquar.68.3.0387 |
Volume | 68 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 387-392 |
Publication | The William and Mary Quarterly |
ISSN | 0043-5597 |
Date | 2011 |
Journal Abbr | The William and Mary Quarterly |
DOI | 10.5309/willmaryquar.68.3.0387 |
Accessed | 2016-04-18 22:16:58 |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Abstract | Two of the major transformations that took place in Virginia during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were the adoption of slave labor to produce a staple commodity (tobacco) and the emergence of a gentry class that built its wealth, power, and social influence on both slavery and export of this crop. The reasons and timing of the transition to slavery and the nature of the planters’ consolidation of power within the British Empire have long been subjects of keen interest and debate. In this Forum these two major transformations are given close scrutiny by John C. Coombs and Douglas Bradburn. Coombs challenges the generally accepted notion that the use of enslaved labor spread only gradually during the first sixty years of the colony’s history before increasing rapidly in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Bradburn examines the critical role played by the English state in intervening in the tobacco trade, part of a new system that transformed Atlantic commerce, allowed a small group of Virginia elites to consolidate their power, and sowed the seeds of future misunderstanding between Britain and the colonies. Six commentators address the two essays’ interpretive arguments and the larger historiographical issues they raise: Lorena S. Walsh, Paul G. E. Clemens, Peter A. Coclanis, April Lee Hatfield, William A. Pettigrew, and Alexander B. Haskell. Bradburn and Coombs conclude the Forum with their response to the commentary. |
Item Type | Book |
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Author | Manisha Sinha |
Place | New Haven, CT |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
ISBN | 978-0-300-18137-1 |
Date | February 23, 2016 |
Library Catalog | Amazon |
Language | English |
Abstract | Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive new history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave’s cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe. |
Short Title | The Slave's Cause |
# of Pages | 784 |