| 单词 | enslave |
| 例句 | The argument went that we benefitted from compulsory education, as it provides a livelihood for formerly enslaved, who couldn’t find gainful employment after the war. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was magical and unavoidable and caused women to willingly enslave themselves to him. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Their belief in white supremacy made it possible for them to think it was acceptable to enslave or eradicate those other peoples. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z By the eve of the American Revolution, a third of the native people in Rhode Island were enslaved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Yale paper notes that the word addiction derives from the Latin addicere, which translates to “enslaved to” or “bound by.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “It’s a euphemism for the curse Noah put upon Canaan, Ham’s son. It’s the reason the Negro was enslaved,” she says. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z How to undo slavery’s injury to the mental faculties—so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they’d endured. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She also showed that she understood the important link between women’s rights and the rights of enslaved people. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They want fathers and brothers to see another man's family enslaved. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I knew that my portion of the American galaxy, where bodies were enslaved by a tenacious gravity, was black and that the other, liberated portion was not. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Most often poor men who came to the New World to make their fortunes, the overseers had not the slightest sympathy for their enslaved workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z For Pauline’s judges, as for King Louis, slavery far off across the seas was completely different from enslaved individuals in France. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z We expect great things from men who have made such a noble stand against the designs of their fellow-men to enslave them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Over 115 million African blacks—close to the 1930’s population of the United States—were murdered or enslaved during the slave trade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was he who poetically “fixed” the Bible—-which in itself and its present King James version has enslaved the world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The enslaved parrot Methuselah, whose flesh has been devoured now by many generations of predators, is forcing his declaration of independence through the mouths of leopards and civet cats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If the ship was on a short journey, between the kingdoms or down the coast, they might be enslaved and sold at the next port. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The largest unmentioned and presumably excluded constituency was the black population, about 90 percent of which was enslaved. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was a spirit in there—some poor enslaved thing that Wick had summoned for the sole purpose of doing Sierra harm. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Some marchers hoisted signs in the air: “Police intimidation enslaves us all”; “Silence is no longer golden.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Spirits raged and swirled inside her, hungry to find this arrogant human who’d enslaved so many of their own. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z For more than half of his American history, he was enslaved. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn’t be in chains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But perhaps some of the enslaved people had the personal pleasure of realizing that they had knowledge that the plantation owners needed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Most Scholars who aren’t enslaved work menial jobs—as farmhands or cleaners or stevedores—backbreaking labor for which they’re paid next to nothing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z To work their sugar fields, Dutch and Portuguese plantation owners had first tried to enslave the native Amerindians, but unrest and escape attempts grew so high that the practice was finally outlawed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z One night she whispered, “I cannot live like this, Amari. My parents, my sisters—all whom I love—are dead. I would rather die than be enslaved like this.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He returned to Spain with gold and a number of Arawak people he had enslaved. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They were the race whose barbarous, cunning, valiant defiance had been enslaved, long centuries before, by the foreign people whom Arthur represented. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s similar to the way, while watching our favorite soap opera, the Doctorita sobbed over the cruelty of Isaura’s enslavement while failing to see that she herself had enslaved me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some 500,000 slaves were brought here, and there were four million enslaved African Americans at the time of emancipation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z For enslaving her people, for massacring another race, for stealing the very land itself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Some of the people looked at the group of enslaved captives with pity as they were marched through the center of town, but no one made any move to help them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Before, slave patrollers searched the premises of colored individuals at will, be they free or enslaved. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “They seek to enslave our children and make them messengers of their will. You must prevent this.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A person’s indentured status did not pass to later generations, but children born to an enslaved person would also be enslaved. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The enslaved people were shipped across the Atlantic to the islands, where they were sold for sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This is some older, grayer, weaker, enslaved version of her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Some of the enslaved took the next step. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z One loses oneself for the sake of the other, but in doing so becomes enslaved and miserable to the most capricious of all the gods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z First they were enslaved by their French masters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z People who were enslaved had no legal protections. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The more sugar was planted, the more mills were built to grind it, the more docks were hammered into place to ship sugar, the more enslaved people were brought from Africa to work the plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Franklin then had the Algerian argue that the enslaved Christians were “better off with us, rather than remain in Europe where they would only cut each other’s throats in religious wars.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was just one exception to this rule: Louisiana, where the native-born enslaved population kept dropping. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The enslaved Africans who were taken to the sugar plantations lost their names; they were meant to be pure property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Scalp hunting and enslaving captives were profitable and aided the colonizers’ efforts to intimidate or eradicate the Indigenous population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “She was enslaved by carnival folk,” Addison said, “forced to pull fat, spoiled children like some common beast of burden— whipped, even, with riding crops!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They said that if enslaved Negroes enjoyed all the good things of life that their masters said they did, there would be no runaway slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The English public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Like Maculele in Brazil, stick fighting was a contest, but also a way enslaved people could express themselves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Settlers who used the labor of enslaved Africans wanted limitless land for growing cash crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the population, some 170,000 people, were enslaved workers, many of whom had been born in Africa and only recently sold into slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Or enslaved, with your own clean room and a shower with hot water? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By his own count, he was involved with 138 enslaved women. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A person who was enslaved was likely to be treated harshly and there was no end in sight for that treatment, other than escaping, which was extremely perilous. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It was the imperial dream of a feudal age that made men enslave others. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When the enslaved Africans could not stand their lives anymore, they risked everything to run or to fight. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z About how, before we were enslaved, we governed ourselves and ruled our own land. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Martials conquered Scholar lands five hundred years ago, and since then, they've done nothing but oppress and enslave us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We should not see the enslaved people simply as victims, but rather as actors—as the heralds of the interconnected world in which we all live today. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Papá said that borrowing money was like being enslaved. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I catch a glimpse of the ground, three stories down, the bricks smaller than they should be, the lines of Candor Jeanine enslaved. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z As a youth, he claimed, he had served as a privateer, after which he was captured and enslaved by the Turks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Right. The rebels enslave the people and get free miners. In turn, they use the billions of dollars they make to buy more arms and terrorize more people.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z This primitive warning system that is meant to serve us, can, instead, enslave. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “The Witch eats the children. Or she enslaves them. Or she sucks them dry,” Ethyne’s mother would say. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The panic-stricken people in the town thought only that they would be killed or enslaved and their city ruined. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If he couldn’t cover the debt, he could be thrown in prison by the state or enslaved by his creditors. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1942, however, we knew that the Germans were working feverishly to find a way to add atomic energy to all the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They keep staring until one man says, “There are more bad men above him. Now they will be angry and get us. We will always be enslaved.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Those advocating an African solution might profitably study the recent English efforts to establish a black colony in Sierra Leone, where most of the freed blacks died or were enslaved by the local African tribes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z That year, Pauline, an enslaved woman from the Caribbean, arrived in France as the personal servant of her mistress. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “You do realize that your sheets are changed, your fires lit, your classrooms cleaned, and your food cooked by a group of magical creatures who are unpaid and enslaved?” she kept saying fiercely. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The enslaved people on Saint Domingue were not merely fighting against the terrible conditions on the island. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She reminded those in the audience that there was another reason she was not like them: She had been enslaved. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “How about Frederick Douglass and his North Star newspaper that helped free the slaves—I mean, the enslaved Africans?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ll be free and the smartest will then be able to enslave the others. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z My grandmother was the daughter of people who were enslaved in Caroline County, Virginia. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The walls of the corridor leading into the tomb were covered with dozens of strange paintings depicting enslaved humans, orcs, elves, and other creatures. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To impose white rule, the Dutch colonists went to war with the natives, ultimately developing a set of laws to subjugate and enslave them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z My grandmother was the daughter of people who were enslaved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z More African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Initially, blacks brought to this country were not all enslaved; many were treated as indentured servants. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There is no evidence that enslaved people had good living conditions; in fact, the opposite was true, according to the historical record. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Some had businesses, and some owned plantations that were worked by enslaved Africans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They were imposed on us by Virginia planters obsessed with enslaving as many Americans as possible. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “You people stole our land from us,” he would say, “and enslaved us. Now you are making us pay through the nose to get the worst pieces of it back.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea that European American “civilization” is superior to those of the American Indians and of the Africans who were enslaved for economic gain is called white supremacy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She had been an enslaved girl but was a free woman. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z If he hated, he hated because it was human for the enslaved to hate the enslaver, natural as Prometheus hating the birds. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Master Wheatley looked the fool for keeping a poetical genius enslaved in his household. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Secure from attack, living off the fat of the land, in his mind’s eye he saw it all: those mice and the woodland creatures enslaved, living just to serve him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But my mother did not seem to care; she would always scoff at her opponents and call them fools in letting their husbands enslave them completely. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe that God now is giving the world’s so-called “Christian” white society its last opportunity to repent and atone for the crimes of exploiting and enslaving the world’s non-white peoples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And indeed, it was when the enslaved Africans began to speak—in words and in actions—when Europeans began to see them as human, that the Age of Sugar also became the Age of Freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z This is what Jeanine was willing to enslave minds and murder people for—to keep us all from knowing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The great paradox about the French Revolution is that even as the revolutionaries passed ever more laws to benefit the poor and enslaved, those same leaders turned increasingly zealous in murdering their enemies. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The journey was long—sometimes it lasted for twenty-seven weeks, far longer than the Middle Passage, the journey that brought newly enslaved Africans to the New World. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In the new United States, the Revolution gave white men with property a sense of freedom, while Africans were still enslaved. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This enabled Columbus to claim the Taino people’s Caribbean home for Spain and to kidnap and enslave the Indigenous peoples. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “El Patron had an instinct for people he could enslave,” said Tam Lin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They pointed out the link between the oppression of women and the oppression of enslaved people. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But the docks echoed with the cries of enslaved Africans bought, sold, and branded in the burning sun. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For what I recalled most was his saying “that no man, or woman either, shall be enslaved to any other, but stand free and equal to one another.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The breach allows for the efficient sorting of the plundered from the plunderers, the enslaved from the enslavers, sharecroppers from landholders, cannibals from food. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Americans felt they were being cheated, silenced—in fact, enslaved. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He meets the local villagers and discovers that an evil man with a machine gun has enslaved them, forcing them to grow poppy flowers that he turns into drugs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They recorded their history in fabulous tapestries that hung on the palace walls, and had skillful knives and swords and such, which they used to conquer the neighboring tribes and enslave them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This map from the 1600s shows boats coming to and fro, as well as the kind of sugar mill that was run by enslaved Africans. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In France, revolutionaries were turning against their own nobles but remained uncertain about what this meant for enslaved Africans on their sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Mourning and George were enslaved on a tobacco plantation in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Though he was not in danger of being enslaved in France, he suffered through a series of conflicts with others who claimed they had invented his process. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Three years ago, Blackjack had been enslaved on the Princess Andromeda until he'd escaped with a little help from my friends and me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z In every single American slave state, the population of enslaved people kept rising even after the slave trade was abolished. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “There are some of us who want to forget about our history and our past. Pretend we were not enslaved people who had to struggle to live. It makes them feel safer.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They’re older, and they have the hangdog look I associate with the folks who came up enslaved, who never knew a taste of freedom until it was too late for them to properly embrace it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z And yet I knew that in 1859 we were enslaved and in 1865 we were not, and what happened to us in those years struck me as having some amount of import. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The usual way of looking at them is as enslaved creatures, captured to supply ATP for cells unable to respire on their own, or to provide carbohydrate and oxygen for cells unequipped for photosynthesis. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Paid next to nothing, people convicted of crimes were effectively enslaved in perpetuity, as they were unable to earn enough to pay off their debts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That was because enough enslaved children were born, lived, and grew to become adults. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Every once in a while a story would start about how young girls were stolen and enslaved by the controllers of the industry, and perhaps many of the stories were true. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Slavery, both as a political and moral issue and as embodied by the enslaved people whose lives were deeply enmeshed with his, isn’t relegated to a single chapter, but woven in throughout. Thomas Jefferson, Neither God Nor Devil 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Self doubt took over, questioning whether he deserved his success, and he became enslaved to an internal pressure to not squander his momentum and come through for those who invested in him. Travis Thompson gets real about mental health, dark side of success on pivotal new “YOUGOOD?” 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Not all blacks were enslaved, and being white did not automatically grant a person prestige or power in French Louisiana. Louisiana’s hidden history: The former slave who became an executioner 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z This was really an announcement that the Civil War was no longer a war just to preserve the Union; freeing the enslaved population was now an official objective for Lincoln and his army. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Yes, it’s true that the British colonial governor of Virginia threatened to sabotage the growing independence movement by promising freedom to those enslaved by “rebels” who fled their masters to join the British Army. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z With this intricate web of personal and family connections, and the brave maneuvering in the face of the overseers’ commands, Gerima is doing nothing less than reconstituting and affirming the full humanity of the enslaved. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Following an 18th-century uprising, 21 enslaved men and women were executed, some burned at the stake and one strapped to a large wheel while his bones were broken with a mallet — in New York City. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z And how much of what we think of as "traditionally American" food is rooted in the contributions and traditions of enslaved West Africans? Padma Lakshmi's political "Taste the Nation" food series could not have debuted at a better time 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Totalitarian domination is the nightmare form of techno-politics: What if the tools that protect us decided to enslave us? When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z There are Black bartenders, discussions of the "black pot" itself, highlights of enslaved chefs, superb food and a tour of the kitchen. Chef Martin Draluck's Black Pot Supper Club honors black chefs 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z After a spate of protests I dreamed that Black citizens — me and my family included — were herded and enslaved. ‘A Dozen Dreams’ Review: Eerie Memories Bring Magic to the Mall 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The powerful open-air museum — the brainchild of Gilbert Larose, a local descendant of enslaved Africans — covers 400 years of island history, starting around 1570. 5 Caribbean Islands Where You Can Go Beyond the Beach 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Some were likely enslaved, and many were almost certainly descendants of slaves, according to Skolnik. A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Brands offers a detailed, almost minute-by-minute account of Brown’s raid, which he rates a “wretched fiasco,” a “quixotic venture” that, far from unshackling the enslaved, tightened their shackles even further. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Some participants expressed frustration with writers, filmmakers and tour operators who profit from their ancestors’ stories or minimize the role of enslaved people in securing their own freedom. Familial Ties to Slavery, Bound by Vintage First-Person Accounts 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z When the cyborgs angrily realize they’ve been enslaved and exploited by people for recreational purposes, I don’t want to be anywhere near this thing! Super Bowl 2064: All hail Emperor Bieber! 2014-01-31T23:59:00Z The skills that Mr Hughes lacked, and Sir Don possessed in almost supernatural abundance, were more psychological than physical: a facility to concentrate on demand, enslaving every fickle doubt to a hunger for runs. The art of batting 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Last August, Tteach installed a plaque in Bristol Cathedral honoring the life of Yanya’s great-great-great grandfather John Isaac Daniel, who was born enslaved to a British family that owned sugar plantations in Barbados. Nilüfer Yanya’s Music Is a Family Affair 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Agents with power and money performed egregious acts of oppression on those they enslaved. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Rhode Island offered freedom to enslaved Blacks who enlisted. Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The Assistant tries to shoot the Governor, but nothing happens; getting rid of a single man will make no difference to the system that enslaves them all. Perspective | Reexamining opera, one classic at a time 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z According to a biography of Tubman, “Bound for the Promised Land,” Maryland recorded 279 enslaved people as runaways in 1850 — more than any other state in the nation. Why these women just walked Harriet Tubman’s 116-mile journey from the Underground Railroad 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z When Amazon was filming “The Underground Railroad,” a series about enslaved workers fleeing a cotton plantation, the therapist Kim Whyte was on set for much of the shoot. A New Must-Have for TV and Movie Shoots: Therapists 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z The goal is to paralyze blacks with undue fear, keeping us enslaved to ideologies that continue to fail us. Fox News pundit Candace Owens challenges ESPN’s Jemele Hill to a debate over racism 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Unwilling to wait for emancipation from a government built on their degradation, enslaved people walked, rowed and ran to freedom. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z But as Canning points out, there's true irony in purchasing that Nestlé bar in hopes of supporting a better system, when the company is being sued by formerly enslaved cocoa workers. 5 things you should know before buying a chocolate bar 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Canadian sugar was built upon violence, including upon enslaved and indentured labor. Uncovering the violent history of the Canadian sugar industry 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z According to the collection of slave narratives at the National Humanities Center, lucky enslaved Africans engaged in ". . . after-work gatherings, Saturday rest and games, and Sunday church-going with their slaveholders." DJ D-Nice's virtual dance parties follow the tradition of innovation in times of adversity 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z It represents the mortar that the Jews, enslaved in Egypt, used to build and layer bricks. Our new favorite charoset is from the biggest Jewish deli in Texas 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Later, she infiltrates plantations to gather intelligence from enslaved people. Critic’s Notebook: Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Examines Colonial Blacks 2014-01-27T22:50:06Z By that point, Detroit’s enslaved population had reached a peak of 298 people. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z The Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows siblings who are at odds over whether to sell a piano bearing depictions of their enslaved ancestors. In Familiar Works, a Chance for Black Film and TV Actors to Shine 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z And so, it is hardly a stretch to say the film’s apes—who enslave the White astronauts after their long space journey—signify Black people in this movie. The 15 most racist Oscar films of all time: Here’s why #OscarsSoWhite is not a surprise 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Based on a series of fantasy books by the Japanese author Nahoko Uehashi, the animated film “The Deer King” opens on a chain gang of enslaved people forced to labor in a salt mine. ‘The Deer King’ Review: Medicine, Family and Empire 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z In Part 1, Samson lies enslaved, blind and manacled, after Dalila’s betrayal and the fateful crew cut. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Performs Handel’s ‘Samson’ 2014-03-05T22:05:31Z No one knows exactly how many enslaved people made it across the river into Indiana and onward to freedom, but the Louisville area was a key crossing site in the U.S. On a Kentucky Riverbank, a Path to Remembrance 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z He was also an early member of the New-York Manumission Society, founded in 1785 to advocate gradual abolition and encourage voluntary freeing of the enslaved. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The formerly enslaved people boomed “Go Down Moses” as they marched. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z She knows that members of her father’s family were forced to pick cotton as enslaved people in Alabama. ‘I can’t breathe’: How one Black quilter channels social justice into her work 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Though never enslaved, Asian labourers were treated harshly: according to a contemporary estimate, at least 1,200 died building the transcontinental railway. Tiger ancestors 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z One of the first recorded Africans to arrive in Virginia was Angelo, an enslaved woman from what now is Angola. In Jamestown, a new exhibition pays homage to the women history overlooked 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z In 1994, Atria published her historical novel “Fragments of the Ark,” based on the life of Robert Smalls, a man who, along with 17 other enslaved people, sailed to freedom during the Civil War. It’s Not Too Late to Discover Louise Meriwether 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Bad writing for Murdoch, and for the generation of literary writers surrounding her, could be defined as "the soft, messy, self-indulgent work of an enslaved fantasy". Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z When Ruggles heard of a Savannah businessman living in Brooklyn with three enslaved people, he took the ferry from Manhattan across the East River and knocked on the door. When a Kidnapping Ring Targeted New York’s Black Children 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Tubman sometimes traded on her story, much as the formerly enslaved orator and women’s rights thinker Sojourner Truth marketed her likeness. An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Sweet and powerful rhymes count down the days from Monday to Sunday, when the enslaved people of New Orleans were allowed to join free blacks for a day of music, socializing and commerce. The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z A political theme also asserts itself: These replicants are an enslaved labor force; their exploitation is the fuel on which this civilization runs. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Black breasts forcibly nourished dozens of babies, black and white, on plantations as enslaved black women were assigned to be wet nurses. bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s reassuring to know that Sofia Coppola, like any other parent out there, has also been enslaved to Frozen. Sofia Coppola: ‘I never felt I had to fit into the majority view’ 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z The West African cooks brought to this continent as enslaved people, meanwhile, were said to have been unimpressed by the root vegetable, dismissing it as "the white man's yam." Thanks, Patti Labelle: Sweet potato pie will always beat pumpkin in my household 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z She reveals that the aunt she lives with is a Haitian Voodoo priestess whose father was brought back from the dead as a zombie and enslaved. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Zombi Child’ and ‘Inside Man’ 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Growing up, Ms. Marshall heard that her family had once enslaved people, but the history hit her in a visceral way 12 years ago, just after her first daughter was born. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Where he was speaking to people who couldn’t think freely because they had been enslaved by ideologies fed to them by the web. Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z And a debut novel imagines a romance between two enslaved men in Civil War-era Mississippi. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Starting in the 1500s, enslaved Africans harvested pearls off Venezuela’s coast. In Fort Lauderdale, a hall of fame to dive deep into His father, James Trotter, was born enslaved but later acquired considerable wealth, owing to some savvy real estate investments and a highly paid government post in the Grover Cleveland administration. ‘Black Radical’ Remembers a Bold Life and Reclaims It for Our Current Moment 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The character and her ability to remember and interpret a secret language of signs is based on Bouie’s reading of accounts of the Underground Railroad and other histories of the life of enslaved people. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z American fried chicken, the recipe for which was cultivated by enslaved Africans in the South, is, at its best, a food of transcendent deliciousness, an object of near holiness. The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is Here to Save America 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Green’s story changes all that by showing how enslaved people likely provided the brains as well as the brawn in what was an arduous, dangerous and highly technical operation. When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, She Stepped In 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z He adds: “I think the illustrator of ‘A Fine Dessert’ meant well in depicting the role of enslaved people as part of the plantation household, but it’s the smile that confuses us. Smiling slaves at story time: These picture books show why we need more diversity in publishing, too 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Indeed the film’s title is drawn from the caveat in the 13th amendment, presumed to guarantee freedom for enslaved blacks, but also legalizes the slavery and involuntary servitude of convicted criminals. Ava DuVernay: 'The black body is being used for profit and politics' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The mansion’s exhibits highlight the stories of an enslaved butler and valet of Philip Schuyler, as well the story of an enslaved woman who fled the mansion. Philip Schuyler Is Knocked Off His Pedestal in Albany 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Details about these enslaved people are known because of their connection to powerful men, but Davis makes clear that they were impressive people in their own right. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Her narration includes sections that jump back even further in time to 1855, when she was an enslaved child on a plantation. How Two Black Women a Century Apart Experience Racism 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The one-pot characteristic of the food in Mbaye's upbringing would parallel with what he found in an area influenced by enslaved Africans who came from his homeland. A New Orleans chef finds a place for fusion in the Black diaspora’s cuisine 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The plot involves a beautiful heiress who virtually enslaves an awe-struck, impoverished acolyte — to the point where the two become doppelgängers and social media enters the mix. ‘The Witch Elm,’ ‘Dopesick’ and More: Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z These days, led by a family descendant, Charles Duell, the 65-acre Middleton Place Plantation, a designated National Historic Landmark, creates exhibits around the genealogy and contributions of its enslaved workers. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In one of the final scenes, Walker has rendered an enslaved man hanging from a tree, while a young Black woman flees, pursued by a white man. The pushback against how Black suffering and victims of violence are depicted in art 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Thousands of free and enslaved Africans known as Black Loyalists fought during the war on the side of the British, with the promise of freedom and land seemingly within their grasp. A Journey Through Black Nova Scotia 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z He emancipated enslaved people as he moved along. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z The other thing is, if Africa was in slavery, Africans were enslaving Africans and it was just as bad because of the Africans, then why wasn't it as bad over there? "Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Over the years, some patrons expressed concerns about the depiction of an enslaved child, but that was not a reason for removing it, said Courtney Martin, the center’s director. Painting of Yale namesake and enslaved child back on display 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z And yet he unflinchingly depicts the abuse suffered by enslaved black people in an unsentimental way. The Most Important Decade for Movies About Black Lives 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Rob Riley plays Hicks, the brooding and emasculated drug connect on a rice plantation in South Carolina where Ernestine ends up enslaved. Promised land: Citizens, superheroes and the Gullah Geechee Nation 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z “But that erases the people who were enslaved here.” Pop-Up Dinners That Share a Culture, Course by Course 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z After another enslaved man discovers their relationship, he attempts to turn the rest of the plantation against them, believing it puts everyone in danger. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The Haitian Revolution inspired uprisings by enslaved people in other parts of the world, including the United States, and contributed to the ending of the slave trade. With a Fortifying Soup, Haitians Share Their Pride in Independence 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z “My great-grandmother was both enslaved and a pastry cook who was famous for her biscuits and cakes,” she said. When the Bake Sale Goes Global, Millions Are Raised to Fight Injustice 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, Kidd’s interpretation of the transformational experiences in the lives of the Grimké sisters, entwined with the travails of their enslaved servants, makes for an utterly absorbing work of fiction. ‘The Invention of Wings’: waking to the evils of slavery 2013-12-31T22:20:55Z To run this enterprise, millions of Africans had to be enslaved and reduced to non-human status. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z In the past, Dana becomes involved in the lives of enslaved Black people as well as the cruel white plantation owners and their children, yanked back and forth from her own life. Why did it take so long to adapt Octavia Butler? 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z More important, it telegraphs that, for their captors, these enslaved men are nothing other than beasts of burden. ‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith in a Brutal Journey 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Many in the U.S. will know them as a fixture of soul food and the broader Southern cuisine shaped by the innovations of enslaved Africans. Get to know these 9 types of mustard greens 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Later in the century, Victorian writer Florence Marryat's "The Blood of the Vampire" introduced readers to Harriet Brandt, a psychic vampire born of a white "mad scientist" and an enslaved Creole woman. Three essential tales of black vampirism 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z The British, Portuguese and Spanish were all responsible for genocide across he Americas, including enslaving native peoples, driving them off their lands, and bringing in African slaves. Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Gen. Philip Schuyler statue earlier this year in part because he was “reportedly the largest owner of enslaved people in Albany during his time,” according to the mayor’s office. Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z When other enslaved people sing “Oh, Lord, how long,” Omar hears “Allah.” With Her First Opera, Rhiannon Giddens Returns to Her Roots 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Barnum parading around an elderly black woman he'd illegally enslaved, trying to pass her off as George Washington's nursemaid. If Jussie Smollett is a hoaxster, what do we call Donald Trump? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z To drive home the point, there would always be one or two simple dishes that reflected the kind of food cooked in the kitchens of enslaved Africans. The American Thanksgiving 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Lawrence, while grappling with the expansive history of the American Revolution, focuses on the role of enslaved Black people in many of the paintings. Jacob Lawrence, Peering Through History’s Cracks 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z In O’Connor’s telling, she is a person with the emotional capacity to understand Jefferson’s tortured soul without excusing him for enslaving so many of the people who make Monticello possible. ‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines his illicit affair 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Terrell had named her daughter for Phillis Wheatley, bringing the trials of an enslaved woman and poet of the 18th century into the politics of the 20th. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Should a woman who was born an enslaved commodity be on money in the first place? The Haunted Image of Harriet Tubman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Though he observed that America had behaved like an imperial power in conquering Native Americans and enslaving Africans, he argued that these nonwhite traditions should not be assimilated. Review: In Megan Pugh’s ‘America Dancing,’ a Focus on Where the Moves Came From 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Tubman helped guide three Union steamboats around Confederate mines and then helped about 750 enslaved people escape with the federal troops. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z The author engages in wordplay by referring to an enslaved human as an ingredient. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Some of its revelations were hidden deep in the archive, such as baptism records of children enslaved by the Velázquez family. A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “Through understanding and accepting Hamilton’s status as an enslaver, the stories of the people he enslaved can finally take their rightful place in history.” Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z But her projects overflow national boundaries and respond to history that began well before the arrival of enslaved Africans in what is now the United States in 1619. Kara Walker Takes a Monumental Jab at Britannia 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z During World War II, they were enslaved workers at Nazi arms factories in Germany. Magnificent Obsessions: Pursuits of a Lifetime 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z For the enslaved, it was “a world they shared with each other and which remained their own domain, free of control of those who ruled the earth.” The Haunted Past 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Scattered among the family plots are plain stones marking the graves of the enslaved. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z If they're enslaved by their condition, so are the rest of us by capitalism and officialdom. World War Z unleashes an unedifying breed of zombie 2013-06-17T13:58:58Z The point of departure is the work of a literate enslaved artisan formerly known as Dave the Potter, and now as David Drake. New Shows That Widen the Beaten Path 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z It's far-fetched, but like only as far-fetched as every religion out there that everyone kills each other for and enslaves the world for. Dizzee Rascal: 'The music just got bigger and better' 2012-06-21T22:00:01Z They also found documents from the 1830s showing that Hopkins and his firm sometimes sought to acquire enslaved people to settle debts. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Some reviewers still question the tour’s focus on enslaved people. For Black tour guides in Savannah, the historical is personal 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z It is often mistakenly said that Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation to announce enslaved people’s freedom in Galveston. Juneteenth: An emancipation celebration 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z A powerful new memorial to enslaved people at the University of Virginia. Perspective | How a rock wall and pool of water have thrown a wrench into the redesign of Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z One episode focuses on the Gullah Geechee community of the coastal Carolinas, whose enslaved ancestors from West Africa cultivated the rice fields of the South, and whose forced labor built the region’s economy. Padma Lakshmi Finds a New Voice, Amplifying the Voices of Others 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, for example, enslaved six people, described in a dowry agreement as “white,” “Berber” and “Black.” A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z With the exception of Gbadebo — who works with clay gathered from the cemetery of the South Carolina plantation where members of her family were enslaved — these artists are current art-market favorites, which lacks curatorial initiative. The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z And that’s something that goes back to the first African-Americans who were enslaved in the United States. Birtherism and America’s history of white supremacy: What we can’t let ourselves forget about Donald Trump 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z And though the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in Mississippi in 1863, the enslaved population at the Polk plantation didn’t learn of their freedom for another two years. The First Lady Who Begat Phyllis Schlafly, Nancy Reagan and Ivanka Trump? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z When we were enslaved, our children were nuisances until old enough to work and sell. Raising a black son in the US: ‘He had never taken a breath, and I was already mourning him’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, for the sake of brevity, American traditions, ease of use, etc., the term slave is opted for over the word enslaved. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z And it was increasingly used against abolitionists, and to block any efforts by African-Americans, free or enslaved, to secure rights or otherwise challenge slavery and white supremacy. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z An enslaved man named Stephany died after fracturing his skull “in a fall from the second to the first floor.” 6 Reasons to Visit the Antiquarian Book Fair 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The story concerns the gradual creation of the town of Kingsbridge and of the many people — priests, nobles, peasants, the enslaved — who played significant roles. Review | Ken Follett’s ‘Pillars of the Earth’ prequel is just as transporting — and lengthy — as his famous epic 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z In time, the very people seen as outsiders, hackers, or enslaved to their laptop might be the Internet’s best option for meaningful, democratic, change. When capitalism consumed the Internet 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z In this case, to use this new technique to enslave someone against their will or knowledge. TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe on using a "weird gaslighting technique" in new film "Ultrasound" 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z In referring to his expansive studio, he said, "she couldn't imagine me owning land that was once a Confederate army base, where Confederate soldiers plotted and planned on how to keep Blacks enslaved." The 2020 Emmys give us stars, just like us! At home, waiting for something good to happen 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Even now, one year from its official establishment as a federal holiday, the shortened explanation of Juneteenth is that it commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans and celebrates our resilience. How (not) to do Juneteenth 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z “Now I watch ‘Emancipation,’ just to see him get whooped,” Rock said, referencing last year’s Civil War-era drama in which Smith plays an enslaved man who is forced to labor for the Confederacy. Chris Rock Mocks Will Smith in Live Netflix Special, Addressing Oscars Slap 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z The exhibition, she added, “portrays more than what we knew before, which were mostly images of servants and enslaved people.” Dutch Golden Age Art Wasn’t All About White People. Here’s the Proof. 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Inspired by real events, it tells the story of a young woman's abduction from her home in Sudan to London, where she is enslaved. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z He enslaves or kills the staff and ensconces himself as host. TJ Miller on his latest project: 'This is a truly apolitical talk show' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Were we meant to contrast the extravagance of her grave with the modest stone for Margaret Pine, believed to be the last person to die enslaved in New York State? Review: In a Cemetery, Music Lives 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z They didn’t leave many written records, but the white people who enslaved them did. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The tour winds through a demonstration garden, along an area where enslaved workers lived, down a steep hill, and past Ferry Lane to the river. Two Virginia estates central to George Washington’s life share little common ground 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z It gave us a slick fantasy infused with mysticism, positing that capitalism's toxic corporate system is a massive multiplayer role-playing figment built to enslave us, and that the machinery was built by machines. No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The program includes a kids’ workshop on games that enslaved children played. A new stop for Harriet Tubman along the Underground Railroad 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z If not, then the first expedition brought enslaved Africans here. "Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z The Richmond lab’s 2012 Visualizing Emancipation project, for example, plots out intricate interactions between federal policy, the Union and Confederate Armies, and thousands of enslaved people, illuminating how liberation unfolded on the ground. Lab in Richmond Animates Comprehensive 1932 U.S. Atlas 2013-12-25T22:20:08Z "The great wisdom of life," the Copt says toward the end of the book, "is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us." Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z I’m reading it and thinking, do we really understand: If you were enslaved, freedom and humanity are not these abstractions. Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z At a large iron bell, Matthew encouraged us to yank the thick rope “in honor of all of the enslaved people who lived and died on the plantation.” New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z She also saw the names of dozens of enslaved men, women and children shipped from Kentucky to Natchez. On a Kentucky Riverbank, a Path to Remembrance 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z To this day, many citizens of Panama, who trace their cultural heritage to these enslaved people, critique this language as they memorialize the famous slave rebellion that earned their freedom. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Juneteenth, or Freedom Day, is rooted in emancipation for the enslaved, so it involves both the celebration of joy and the commemoration of pain. What Does It Mean to Be Crowned ‘Miss Juneteenth’? 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Hercules is enslaved far from home but literally battles his way back to the kingdom in a story with the sort of bloodless combat scenes typical of PG-13 rated movies. ‘The Legend of Hercules’: A ‘Twilight’ vamp does mythology 2014-01-10T17:34:01Z Mr. Baptist shows the ways that new financial products, like the bundling of bonds that used enslaved people as collateral and were sold to bondholders in this country and abroad, enriched investors worldwide. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Whichever side you take in the ongoing terminology debate, both "slave" and "enslaved person" erase both personality and agency from the individuals being described. "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z In “The Bell Rang” Ransome has given us a bittersweet slice of plantation life, one in which innocence, familial love and safety are juxtaposed with pain, loss and the resilience of the enslaved. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z In “South to Freedom,” Baumgartner traces the journey of enslaved people to New Spain and Mexico, even as white planters, emboldened by federal law, spread their cotton kingdom west. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Key wrote that verse because the British were promising the Black enslaved people freedom if they fought alongside them in the Revolutionary War. Black people who celebrate the Fourth of July should totally pay these penalties 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Autobiographies of the enslaved, central to the Abolitionist cause before the Civil War, brought political and moral urgency to the tropes of violated innocence and daring escape. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z By killing off local inhabitants and enslaving Africans to do the backbreaking labor of tending the sugar plant, European settlers managed to build a huge production complex. How Sweet It Is. And How Malignant. 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Coogan does, in fact, smoke a joint, lighting up in the same house where Coleridge wrote “Dejection: An Ode” and indulged in opium, the soporific that enslaved him in “humiliation and debasement.” | ?The Trip': 2 Pairs of Sharp Elbows On White Tablecloths 2011-06-09T23:20:20Z Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New World” famously imagined a future society in which people were enslaved to pleasure. Review: Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’ Is Neither Brave Nor New 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z In "The Underground Railroad" he smolders as Royal, a free Black man who rescues an enslaved woman, Cora, from a heartless bounty hunter who never stops chasing her. These MVPs of television delivered greatness in a year that almost broke us 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z It follows the same basic plot as the book, a work of alternate historical fiction: the Underground Railroad is a literal series of trains run by Black people spiriting enslaved people toward freedom. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z With that in mind, here are five questions you can ask yourself to help find those companies who are paying farmers better, using more sustainable cultivation practices and avoiding enslaved labor. 5 things you should know before buying a chocolate bar 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z “Free State of Jones” is careful not to suggest that the conditions endured by disenfranchised white and enslaved black Mississippians were identical. Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Because of the symbolic threat posed by men and women who escaped slavery, thousands of enslaved workers were with highly visible, horrific devices meant to discourage them from trying the same thing. At Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, ‘Back Stories’ become inclusive 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z In a series of small collages, she frames historical images of enslaved people and plantation workers within advertisements for cruise lines. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z During the scene in which Wagner’s enslaved metalsmiths toil at their anvils — mere stage props — a team of percussionists, concealed offstage, hammers away on the tubing. Richard Horowitz, Renowned Timpanist and Craftsman of Conductors’ Batons, Dies at 91 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z It is also “the memory cuisine of the great, great grandchildren of enslaved people,” an answer to the question “Who are we?” Carla Hall is ‘the most visible black person in food.’ Now she wants to take soul food mainstream. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Kratzer, who has swiftly become one of Europe’s most in-demand opera directors, makes the opera’s enslaved Hebrews into contemporary refugees, the Egyptians into corporate types in smart suits. At the Opera, Humans Bear Witness to Atrocity, or Ignore It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The transition from corn-based dumplings to wheat ones reflects changes in taste, but also may have been influenced by Indigenous contact with European settlers and enslaved Africans. A Beloved Indigenous Dessert Evolves With Each Generation 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Without minimizing the deprivations and the agonies of the enslaved, the movie both depicts and embodies cultural continuity and the force of individual and collective survival. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The roots of modern policing go all the way back to slave patrols of the antebellum South, according to historian W. Marvin Dulaney, which had unrestricted power over enslaved people and often used violence. The duty and burden of the black police officer 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z All porters were called “George,” after the company owner George Pullman, a vestige of when enslaved people were addressed by their owner’s name. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z I didn’t want to show defeat or agreement with the enslaved culture. Dominique Morisseau Asks: ‘What Does Freedom Look Like Now?’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In the 1700s, Louisiana’s governor signed what was known as the tignon law requiring Black women to wrap their heads in scarves so they could be more easily identified as enslaved people. What Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sisterlocks mean to Black women 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Her service as a nurse, a relief worker among enslaved refugees, a scout and a spy was partly rewarded decades later with a pension. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z In this debut novel by an accomplished poet, Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up in a northern city but spends summers in her maternal family’s home in Chicasetta, Ga., were generations of her ancestors were enslaved. 10 books to read in August 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z It’s a story enslaved by a director’s approach rather than served by it. Review: 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' Favors Technology Over Faces 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z So much remains unknown about how millions of enslaved Africans used it in their kitchens and how it got to those kitchens to begin with. Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z This is the irony of Filipino families: the way we construct them allows us to abuse and maltreat each other, and even allows us to enslave our own blood. “Filipineza” doesn’t mean “servant”: Notes of witness from an immigrant daughter 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z PE: “Even though for much of our history we denied most people the vote and enslaved millions of people, hey, we stopped because the South lost the war — we’re just freakin’ saints!” Style Invitational Week 1451: Could have said it worse ourselves 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z He added, “Black people were actually enslaved, they get February. They get 28 days of overcast weather.” ‘S.N.L.’ Has a Theory About the Fly That Landed on Mike Pence’s Head 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z She said both the C.V.B. and other historic sites could take a cue from McLeod and tell the stories of the enslaved more accurately, making Black experiences more central. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z She spoke about Congo Square — the New Orleans site where, in the early 19th century, enslaved people were allowed to drum and dance, a place where African traditions were braided and sustained. She Wants to Heal the World Through Second Line 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z When, midway through, some townspeople begin practicing capoeira — a combat game that originated with enslaved Africans — they are both communing with that history of defiance and readying for a new battle. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Granger’s proclamation asked that enslaved people stay on the plantations and transition to becoming paid employees. Juneteenth: An emancipation celebration 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The enslaved heroine moved with paradoxical freedom among the cast, dressed in stiff robes and elaborate headgear. Peter J Hall obituary 2010-06-24T18:00:00Z The story centers on two young exiles, the lovely Zaide and the stalwart Gomatz, who are enslaved in a Turkish seraglio. Music Review: In Unfinished Mozart Opera, Berio Provides the Last Word 2011-04-01T22:32:50Z A new Southern food movement was bubbling to the surface, lifted by cookbook authors like Edna Lewis and a group of academics pushing to better tell the story of enslaved Africans. A Powerful, and Provocative, Voice for Southern Food 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Although many recipes and ingredients listed throughout the cookbook, such as okra and gumbo, were traditionally used and prepared by enslaved African Americans, one of the best examples to support this theory is Batter Bread. Why spoonbread matters 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Boy Willie wants to sell the piano and buy the property their enslaved ancestors worked on in the South. LaTanya Richardson Jackson on Directing ‘The Piano Lesson’ (and Her Husband) 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z It's reasonable to conclude that Randoph used recipes from James Hemings, who was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson and was the chef de cuisine at Monticello. Why spoonbread matters 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z It tells the story of an enslaved couple living in the Caribbean city of Cartagena in the 17th century. Colombian salsa star Joe Arroyo dies 2011-07-26T19:51:26Z ‘The Mothers of Gynecology’: The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z She shot some of her footage from a kayak on the Wacissa River, which was bisected by a canal built by enslaved people. In Brooklyn Bridge Park, Artwork Confronts Climate Change 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z The Denisons struck a deal to secure their own freedom, but their four children remained enslaved. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Meantime, the slave catchers are allowed a certain degree of humanity, or, at least, motivation: poverty, loneliness, the death of a child, while the enslaved are not all “good.” Promised land: Citizens, superheroes and the Gullah Geechee Nation 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Also, foods specific to Passover, which begins on Friday night: matzo, horseradish and haroseth, the sweet fruit-and-nut paste that represents the mortar used by Jews as enslaved bricklayers in ancient Egypt. Is Seltzer Jewish? And 99 Other Argument-Starters 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The 1850 law confirmed what generations of enslaved African-Americans knew too well: They existed as property, not persons, in the eyes of the law. A history of sanctuary cities: How Black Americans protected fugitive slaves 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z We inhabit a world where many women are enslaved, demeaned, abused. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Swiftly: A Novel is an enlightenment-era steampunk fantasy, spun from the what if? question of how the British Empire might have evolved had it enslaved the Lilliputian people of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Adam Roberts: last of the SF writers 2013-02-15T11:09:00Z Its wry ink drawings and fine script recount the story of a formerly enslaved family and their former owners after Emancipation reversed their fortunes. The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z For a case involving an enslaved person to be good precedent in, say, a property matter, “you have to continue to treat that person as property,” he told me. Fighting racial bias with an unlikely weapon: Footnotes 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z “Talking about the history of the enslaved community is one thing, but recreating that space and trying to give it material substance takes it really to another level.” For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The narrator, Briseis, was enslaved to Achilles in the first book after he killed her husband and brothers before the siege of Troy. Review | Pat Barker’s ‘The Women of Troy’ continues her brilliant reassessment of the Trojan War 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z During a recent renovation, workers found bricks made by enslaved women, which were donated to the Equal Justice Initiative. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z But it focuses mainly on the enslaved African-Americans who sought refuge there early in the Civil War, setting off an argument that led, ultimately, to the Emancipation Proclamation. Lessons Taught: Obama’s Legacy as a Historian 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Africa’s profusion of natural wealth—whether gold, ivory or the very bodies of its inhabitants—served not to enrich its peoples but to impoverish and enslave them. The unlucky continent 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Traveled today mainly by kayakers and bird watchers, the river’s channels were originally dug by enslaved Black people for the transport of cotton. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z President George W. Bush, takes truth as his muse at the Toronto International Film Festival with a drama about a woman enslaved in the London of today. "Death of a President" director takes on slavery 2010-09-17T17:37:00Z I learned mofongo originated from enslaved people from Angola and other parts of Africa, who brought plantains to the island in the 1500s. Why mofongo is the perfect addition to your holiday table 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Construct the logic puzzle implied by those lines and you may conclude that the most of white people who enslaved Black people did not accept the order with great cheer. How (not) to do Juneteenth 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z To understand the scope of such an endeavor, we traced the odyssey of one small object — a flowered skirt worn by an enslaved African American girl born in Loudoun County, Va. — from acquisition to installation. A humble skirt worn by an enslaved child finds a place in history 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Legally enforced monogamy created lines of inheritance and social obligation, clarifying how neighbors should be treated and who could be enslaved. The religious right’s policing of sex robs pleasure from the underprivileged 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z To some who engaged with this school of thought, domestic work was looked down upon, similar to how enslaved cooks and housekeepers were viewed in hindsight as lesser than those forced into hard labor. Butler's "Kindred" features a Black woman doing what most people fear: grappling with ugly history 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z There’s a short stretch along the Charleston waterfront, just a few hundred yards from the South Carolina Aquarium, where tens of thousands of enslaved people took their first steps in the New World. The Head of Charleston’s New African American Museum on Curiosity, Courage and Storytelling 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville, Tenn., which also did not return emails for comment, describes the “136 enslaved workers” who used to inhabit the once 5,400 acres of land prior to the Civil War. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z One of his achievements in this novel is to closely underscore the human particularity of a range of enslaved men and women. With ‘The Water Dancer,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes His Fiction Debut 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The enslaved woman tried to silence her tender mother’s heart, but couldn’t; her infant’s cries muddled her movements, bound her fingers. Raising a black son in the US: ‘He had never taken a breath, and I was already mourning him’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Savannah, Ga., and Petersburg, Va. Products of the Great Awakening of the 18th century, the growing churches were built by — and for — enslaved people. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z A lyrical and rebellious love story about two enslaved boys in antebellum Mississippi, whose relationship is accepted and even cherished until a Christian evangelist, also enslaved, turns the plantation against them. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z When the English outlawed slavery, they paid $2.4 billion in reparations, not to those who were enslaved, but to the owners who were dispossessed of human chattel. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z It was an uprising of enslaved people—the “true sans-culottes of the colonies,” according to one French Republican leader—in Saint-Domingue that forced the 1794 abolition of slavery. The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French National Assembly 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Some of the descendants of the enslaved people who lived there attended the Old Dawn School. She found her father’s segregated schoolhouse decaying in the Va. woods. Now, it is on the way to being saved. 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z To that end, Mr. MacFarlane aligns Ted’s struggle with enslaved black Americans so that, while watching a scene in “Roots” in which Kunta Kinte is whipped, Ted jokes that he’s just like the brutalized slave. Review: In ‘Ted 2,’ the Foulmouthed Bear Tries to Prove He’s Human 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The linkage is they’re all set in the pre-Civil War South, and involve a psychosexual power game between an enslaved black person and a white Southerner. Review | ‘Slave Play’ is a funny, scalding, walk along the boundary between black and white in America 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z There was another factor, too: the song contains the only moment in the show when an enslaved person is named — Hemings. As Broadway Returns, Shows Rethink and Restage Depictions of Race 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Louver, you turned Topsy, the enslaved character from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” into these fierce warrior girls. Alison Saar on Transforming Outrage Into Art 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Anderson, is about an enslaved man trying to get home to Pompeii to save his loved ones. Today’s Movie Trailer: Pompeii 2013-08-22T16:30:06Z You talk about the influence of your grandmother, as being the daughter of people who were enslaved. Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Because what if they do understand, and then decide that they, like the Jewish people, do not want to be enslaved anymore? Watching pet Passover: Should we allow animals to participate in the Seder? 2011-04-18T20:40:00Z Born enslaved in Maryland, Tubman freed herself and then liberated hundreds more, exercising moral and tactical leadership for which she became known as Moses, or General Tubman. An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z An enslaved Black woman finds Icon’s ship, and he adapts his appearance, including the color of his skin, to fit in. A Black Superman? It’s Happened, and Could Again. 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Their ancestors were captured in West Africa and enslaved. A High-Summer Feast to Forge Connections in the Deep South 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z He freed enslaved people, won the Civil War and was ahead of his time on economic issues. CNN's "Lincoln" docuseries is a fascinating treasure trove for fans of the best Republican president 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Her mother is of Irish and Barbadian descent, and the ancestors on Yanya’s maternal grandfather’s side were enslaved. Nilüfer Yanya’s Music Is a Family Affair 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Spinozzi and her colleagues are currently researching Drake’s contemporaries, including an enslaved potter named Harry who also signed his name to jars. The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z She appreciated hearing the banjo and learning that it was invented by enslaved Africans. Different ways to show paintings, photos to blind people 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z This is only 41 years after slavery, where some of their dads, their moms, were enslaved. Black Soldiers Cycled 1,900 Miles Across the U.S. So He Did, Too. 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z People would pay to gawk at these enslaved human beings, making their captors a healthy profit and reaffirming in the minds of the audience the need for European expansion, whatever the human cost. Tattoos have a long history going back to the ancient world — and also to colonialism 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z A young poet, she wrote this poem to another enslaved child. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Miss Ellie is a repository of signs, teaching people — including enslaved people seeking to escape — how to read them. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z For decades, Atwood resisted writing a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” her classic feminist dystopia about a country called Gilead in which fertile women are enslaved to produce children. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share the 2019 Booker Prize 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Brooke Newman, a history professor at Virginia Commonwealth University who studies the British royal family, noted that Britain was the primary trader of enslaved people in the mid-to-late 18th century. Here’s What to Know About ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z It represents the planned voyage of the Pearl, the schooner on which 77 enslaved people attempted to escape from D.C. to New Jersey in 1848. Review | In the galleries: Face to face with a world both beautiful and horrific 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The need to write about enslaved people sociologically — what happened to the group as a whole — should not foreclose considerations of individual enslaved people’s lives. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z He details the history of barbecue back to its Indigenous roots in pre-Columbian days, and recounts how it became part of the culture of enslaved Africans. The Black History of Barbecue 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z To ensure their commitment to the Union, Lincoln simply turned a blind eye, dashing the democratic aspirations of thousands of enslaved people. Lincoln Served Six Ways: Reframing a President 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z In 1740, Duplessis was one of the first enslaved people to be heard by a Canadian court, after she claimed she had been born a free woman. A French Festival Focuses (Timidly) on English 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Were she to return, any child she bore there would be enslaved. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Despite such resistance, more and more academics recognized the limitations of the older, impersonal terminology and started to embrace "enslaved" and its variants. "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z At its core, the show takes inspiration from the dance traditions of enslaved people and their descendants. At Museums and Auctions, Paintings, Posters and a Magician’s Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “Not that long ago if you were an enslaved African, or a serf in rural Russia, you were definitely not human for most of the people in power,” Akomfrah explained. An Artist Who Brings Order to Chaos 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z “The moral purity of the white woman is deeply contaminated,” Grimké wrote in 1837, because she looks “without horror” upon the crimes committed against her “enslaved sister.” ‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z “I read the book and the script, and both just blew my mind,” says Aaron Pierre, who plays Caesar, the enslaved man who leads Cora from a Georgia plantation to the Underground Railroad. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Among them is Ted Blew, the fifth-great-grandson of the man who enslaved Tom Blew, whose son Moses is buried at Stoutsburg. Uncovering Lost Black History, Stone by Stone 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z This idea that she was just this interloper, this outsider, this American descended from enslaved people. Meghan Markle "excites controversy" — Andrew Morton on the galvanizing power of the People's Duchess 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The world Caesar lived in was one fueled by the Columbian Exchange, which was built from enslaved labor and rich with culinary delights: pineapples, Madeira wine, port, champagne, coffee, sugar and cocoa beans. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z She escaped alone the first time but, subsequently, led several more missions following the same path, risking her life to bring an estimated 70 enslaved people to freedom. Why these women just walked Harriet Tubman’s 116-mile journey from the Underground Railroad 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z ‘The Mothers of Gynecology’: The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. ‘Futures’ comes alive in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z British policy toward Black people, both enslaved and freed, was more enlightened than that of the Americans. Assaults and Occupations in Wartime 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z This biographical erasure is one of the biggest challenges facing museums that seek to exhibit work by enslaved artists. The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Dinkins ran into similar problems with NFTs that she created and sold showing how okra was brought to North America by enslaved people and settlers. Black Artists Say A.I. Shows Bias, With Algorithms Erasing Their History 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Her image refers to Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman of mixed race who belonged to Jefferson, and whose six children were in all likelihood fathered by him. Parenting While Black: Titus Kaphar’s Starkly Powerful Works 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Before the Civil War, McCrossen says, New Year’s was sometimes referred to as “Heartbreak Day,” when many enslaved people would be sold or hired out to new enslavers, pulling families apart. Perspective | New Year’s Day is trash 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z She also starts many mornings by reading the hopeful prayers of enslaved people in the antebellum era. Don’t want to retire? Here’s how to maintain a fulfilling career into your 80s and beyond. 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z A: Part of telling the story of what it was like to be a slave is that what shaped the minds of the enslaved was finding freedom, finding a better day. The founding director of the African American Museum started with ‘nothing’ 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z In her rendering More is not a saint but a fanatic, enslaved by an idea, and in defense of an idea, human beings are ultimately expendable. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Thomas More Follows His Principles Straight to the Torture Chamber 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z There are companies that barter life for money, enslave animals like the zoo, and we protested against it. "40 Years a Prisoner" confronts the police we're supposed to trust "telling bold-faced lies" 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z The church was perhaps the only institution available to enslaved people. In (and around) Fredericksburg, Va., walking the steps of a slave’s Trail to Freedom 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Ultimately, I found Georgiana’s rarefied status to be the show’s biggest representational challenge: As I reveled in her splendor, I also found myself forgetting the enslaved labor that created it. ‘Bridgerton’ Takes On Race. But Its Core Is Escapism. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Monday, the museum will host a viewing and panel event for the WGN America television drama “Underground,” about a group of enslaved people and their journey to freedom. An extra patina of pride on African American Museum’s second day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z His classmates were other students who were descendants of enslaved people in the Richmond area. She found her father’s segregated schoolhouse decaying in the Va. woods. Now, it is on the way to being saved. 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “Consumers of these racist ideas,” Kendi writes, “have been led to believe there is something wrong with Black people, and not the policies that have enslaved, oppressed, and confined so many Black people.” How ‘The Snowy Day’ — on a postage stamp — can help us rethink race in America 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z “Deployed for a higher purpose and in the right hands, those of enslaved people,” Thomas writes, “the law testified to an inheritance of freedom.” Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Though enslaved, Sally Hemings helped shape her life and the lives of her children, who got an almost 50-year head start on emancipation, escaping the system that had engulfed their ancestors and millions of others. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Hard evidence of the grim life that enslaved people endured emerged last year with the discovery of “the Room of the Slaves” in a villa to the north of Pompeii. Pompeii Moves With the Times 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Confederate troops murdered enslaved Black men seeking freedom for the sheer hell of it. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z In the presence of the Brodesses, Rev. Green preached, to the enslaved black people held on that farm, a sermon of obedience and fervent service to their presumptive masters. The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet” 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z That a man of Hopkins’s wealth and position would own or trade in enslaved people is not in itself surprising. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z A week ago, Kanye West said that 400 years of slavery was a “choice,” appearing to blame enslaved black people for not freeing themselves sooner. Kanye West rebuked by Ta-Nehisi Coates in biting essay called ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye’ 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Psychically enslaved to man as father-figure, this woman paints her face and dreams of white weddings and arranges the home that will be her dreary, sexless prison for the rest of her life. The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z She says she’s done as much research as she could; learning, for instance, that Mary and Martha had a white French grandfather and that other ancestors were enslaved. Perspective | People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote a musical about them. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z More interesting is the story of Jolla, a formerly enslaved man just a few years older than Noah. Two Novelists, Avi and Brian Farrey, Use Fiction to Show Kids Why Facts Matter 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z It paints the enslaver as benevolent, where the benefits of enslaved consumption of a depressant upstage the idea that these people were provided an opportunity to blow off pent-up steam from being enslaved and oppressed. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Miles confronts a dilemma in her effort to illuminate the lives of Detroit’s enslaved people. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z She was born to an enslaved woman in Virginia, in 1851. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Goddess of Anarchy’ 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z The prints were made when Mr. Bey traveled a path in northeastern Ohio followed by fugitive enslaved people trying to make their way toward freedom. Photography That Focuses on Those Who Are Often Not Seen 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The voices of enslaved people can be hard to hear in the archives. Putting the Ghosts of Princeton’s Racial Past Onstage 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z In another story, an elderly man, suffering intermittent memory loss, is enslaved by a bully, himself terrified of his abusive wife. Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the Deep South by Tim Gautreaux | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z The “tattered dress” allows her to dilate on how the slave system’s reach extended to state laws codifying the kinds of material that enslaved people were permitted to wear. In One Modest Cotton Sack, a Remarkable Story of Slavery, Suffering, Love and Survival 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z In 1860, for example, enslaved people accounted for some 10 percent of the state’s population, compared to, say, South Carolina’s 57 percent. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Moses and Kitch specifically recall not only Beckett’s vaudevillians, but also enslaved African-Americans working a plantation and even biblical Israelites escaping from Egypt. Review: Waiting for Po-Po in a Searing ‘Pass Over’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z I grew up with my dad giving me books about Egypt, teaching me about African kings and queens and Mansa Musa, and educating me that, as a people, we weren’t slaves but we were enslaved. In ‘Small Axe,’ Letitia Wright Plays a Real-Life Black Panther 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z A tour of the quarters and home, with their artifacts of bondage and bounty, shows how the enslaved Africans toiled to keep the manor house functioning for the wealthy Royalls. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z At that time, enslaved peoples from Africa, brought to work on Franco-Mauritian coconut plantations, became the first settlers in the Chagos Archipelago. “24′s” phony history exposed: The dark history of a CIA “black site” 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z He perpetuated acts of cruelty, sometimes selling enslaved people and forcibly relocating them away from their families as punishment. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Olivia Williams is a historical interpreter at McLeod Plantation, whose tours focus on the quarters where enslaved people lived rather than the grand home that belonged to the white family. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z Siete Partidas, a 13th-century legal code that protected enslaved people from mistreatment, was grounds for African-American sanctuary in the face of slaveholding America’s most brutal forms of control: branding, maiming, starvation. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z All his life he had felt constrained and enslaved by conditions and circumstances, yet now he was "reborn into another life", another world in which people were different from how they had been before. Bipolar memoirs: What have I done? 2013-04-26T06:30:11Z She cites artists such as Renee Stout and Martha Jackson Jarvis as inspirations, though she is also inspired by historians of black culture, the lives of enslaved people and the Underground Railroad. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z But I wondered about all those enslaved Black people that were intentionally missing here, those who made all that wealth possible. The Multi-Layered Movie of American Fashion 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z According to ethnographer Renée Alexander Craft, European colonists scared enslaved persons into submission by claiming that the devil would harm them if they rebelled. Lil Nas X’s dance with the devil evokes tradition of resisting, mocking religious demonization 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z The corollary is that in order not to be enslaved she must be prepared to die. La Vida Doble: A Novel by Arturo Fontaine – review 2013-07-27T07:30:00Z Unable to bear the suffering of humans the vN are enslaved by their own kindness as servants, wives and often far worse. Being male is not a prerequisite for hard SF 2012-08-07T11:18:42Z In the prologue, for example, you get a much more brutal look at the treatment of prisoner 24601, who appears to be enslaved on a ship. A fresher 'Les Miz' for a new generation 2011-02-07T17:38:54Z American slave owners typically kept minimal records of enslaved people’s lives, aside from listings of births, deaths, sell-offs and escapes. 6 Reasons to Visit the Antiquarian Book Fair 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z To fill in the gaps, enslaved Africans grew their own provisions on land hidden from slave owners. In the Virgin Islands, Fungi Tells a Story 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z By contrast, she said, she’s pretty sure she had ancestors who were enslaved. How Paul Ryan is related to Ketanji Brown Jackson 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z A black woman whose enslaved ancestors could in theory have been sold in a slave market visible on the Mall from where she read her poem. A Poet’s Tale from Obama’s First Inaugural 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The exhibition will also showcase records from the Freedmen’s Bureau, with inventories of clothing, food and money given to formerly enslaved people to help them get on their feet. ArtsBeat: Expansion at the National Archives Means More Focus on Human Rights 2013-06-10T17:17:40Z The archives shed light on another fact of life in Knights-era Valletta: When Christians and Muslims weren’t slaughtering or enslaving one another, they sometimes did business. Beneath Malta’s Beauty, a Tangled History 2013-12-06T18:20:39Z Linking their stories is a Yazidi Schindler named Abdullah, a beekeeper who has made it his mission to rescue the enslaved women after many of his family members were taken, including his sister. Like a Schindler for Iraq, This Unlikely War Hero Freed Women From ISIS 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Dried legumes were looked down on as poor man’s food, but the economic scarcities of the Civil War severely impacted the diets of both enslaved Africans and white Southerners. Stewing Black-Eyed Peas for New Year’s Luck 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Sotterley has a descendants’ registry that gathers the names of those who were enslaved, worked on or owned the property since its founding in 1703. Descendants of slaves and slave owners discover legacy of Maryland’s Sotterley Plantation 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Exotic matter is being used either to enslave humanity or to evolve us into a higher consciousness, depending on whom you believe. Ingress, a Mobile Game From Google 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z “Culturally, this rice is a hidden story of the African-American and enslaved narrative,” he said. Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Nearest Green is being acted upon, "embraced," now much like he was being acted upon, "enslaved," during his lifetime. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z The phrase “all men are created equal” was written at a time when we enslaved men, women and children. There Are 13 Quotations in a U.S. Passport. Guess How Many Are From Men? 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The statement said that Duterte told Seagal that “movies are a reflection of life” and “reiterated his strong stance against illegal drugs because it enslaves people to a form of synthetic chemical.” Steven Seagal meets 'The Punisher' Duterte, talks drug war 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Their mother’s side was researched back to 1800 and Filis, an enslaved woman who traveled with her owners to South Carolina. A Writer?s Struggles, on and Off the Page 2010-09-17T23:14:00Z To personalize history, parents should point out depictions of children in the museum, from the images of enslaved children to references to the Birmingham Children’s Crusade, Costello said. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Stanton and her colleagues sought to recreate this lost world via an oral history project, interviewing more than 100 descendants of Monticello’s enslaved people and collecting images of those ancestors. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The central dramas of “Sankofa” are dramas of consciousness—the consciousness of the enslaved, and the consciousness of modern black Americans of the origins and import of their culture. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The adjacent archaeological site is where the home of Captain William Pierce once stood — and where Angela, the first documented enslaved African landed in North America. An Awakening in Columbus, a Reckoning in Williamsburg 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z “The truth revealed in Hamilton’s cash books and letters must be acknowledged in order to honor the people he enslaved,” she writes. Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Others look at the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to the U.S. Sundance Film Fest unveils lineup for hybrid 2022 edition 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z This wasn’t the swankiest showing; the first king was played by an enslaved man who wore a makeshift robe fashioned from a window curtain, and the play was condensed for a smaller cast. A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Engraved into the backs of the benches are the words, “We are descendants of kings and queens who were enslaved in America,” from Lamont Collins, founder of Roots 101 African American History Museum here. On a Kentucky Riverbank, a Path to Remembrance 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The result is “The Underground Railroad,” an unflinching portrayal of Cora, an enslaved woman who escapes a Georgia plantation and its horrors only to be pursued by an unrelenting bounty hunter. Barry Jenkins on his unflinching epic ‘Underground Railroad’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z The major difference between Indian and European populations was the fact that Indians were enslaved to work on gold mines and silver mines in alarming numbers beginning on Columbus’ second voyage whereas Europeans were not. The new book 'The Other Slavery' will make you rethink American history 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Could it be that they came from a lover he had murdered and whose soul was now enslaved by the sound of his violin? Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z “Political power, social capital, economic capital, during a period when half the country’s enslaved. Presenting it to the public, I think, is going to be eye-opening.” For the people of Lyles Station, Ind., a trip to the African American Museum lets them witness their legacy 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z She created a small army of enslaved girls turned warriors, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s character Topsy for a major gallery show in Los Angeles. Alison Saar on Transforming Outrage Into Art 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The documents suggest that in the 1780s, the enslaved teenager escaped from the Gardiners, and they sent agents to track him down. Newly Discovered Copy of Declaration of Independence Will be Auctioned 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z In his day, Smalls was a rarity, a black enslaved harbor pilot. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z There were all sorts of forms of unfree labor, but there were only one group of people that were enslaved and that was for black people. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z How do you speak honestly about the brutalities of slavery in a country in which many don’t know that it was enslaved hands that built the White House? The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The enslaved man fantasizes about soaring into an orange sky filled with crows. Review: At Northwest African American Museum, works you’ll want to touch — but don’t 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Her epic rescues of scores of enslaved people were possible because Tubman knew how to navigate the region’s contours and trails, depths and denseness, flora and fauna, the seasons, sun and stars. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Instead of statistical distributions of wealth, Mr. Beckert’s focus is on planters and enslaved workers, manufacturers and wage laborers, the center of the British Empire and colonies and, later, developing nations. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Granted, black people’s relationship to this country is complicated, especially for those of us whose ancestors were enslaved. West Point on Memorial Day: Race, one graduation photo, and the meaning of America 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The first thing you encounter on the path to the pavilion is a bronze tableau by the Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo of enslaved African men and women straining against their shackles in panicked alarm. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z For more than four decades, Garrett assisted some 2,700 enslaved people on their journey to freedom, providing them with food, shelter, money and connections to other abolitionists. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Ancestry looms large in “Love Songs,” and Jeffers has deftly crafted a tale of a family whose heritage includes free Blacks, enslaved peoples and Scottish and other white colonialists. A Triumphant Debut Novel on Black History and Coming of Age in the South 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z I stopped at a small log cabin built in the 1850s by James Webb, a free black farmer who lived there with his enslaved wife and four children. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It commemorates the day in 1865 that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free, two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This Juneteenth, "Atlanta" will give you all the insights you need on how America co-opts a holiday 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z The Spanish promise of freedom drew streams of the enslaved. In Florida, Solemn Shadows of the Early Underground Railroad 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Charleston was the fourth largest city in America, but fully half of its citizens were enslaved, and the slaveholders were fearful of a revolt. The Newish Charleston 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Yet, as both Baumgartner and Wells show, Black movement against the laws and institutions that enslaved them affected American politics far more than any ballot cast or Electoral College vote. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The mechanics are no doubt fiercely debated; reparations has been used to describe a variety of proposals, though at its heart refers to financial compensation from the government to the descendants of enslaved people. How Reparations for Slavery Became a 2020 Campaign Issue 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Huling compared the moment to enslaved people in Confederate states gathering in churches on New Year’s Eve in 1862, praying for the deliverance of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Perspective | The enduring moments of 2021, as told by Post reporters A curved line evokes the ship’s hull in which Anthony Burns, an enslaved man in Virginia, stowed away to Boston in 1854. An Artist’s Gateway to Freedom and Possibility 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z There was a percentage of enslaved workers, but there were also freed African American workers who worked on the house, and there were other immigrant laborers who worked on the house. Have deep, probing questions about the White House? Here is your source. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Millions of Europeans were captured, sold and enslaved by the Barbary pirates in north Africa and the Middle East, even the USA went to war with them. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Jan. 17 Scholastic Publishing halts distribution of “A Birthday Cake for George Washington,” by Ramin Ganeshram, after critics claim the picture book sanitizes the life of the president’s enslaved cook. Who needs a Nobel Prize? Who is Elena Ferrante? And other literary news in 2016. 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The daughter of an enslaved healer and seamstress and her White master, Pheby Delores Brown grows up in a kind of in-between state. Review | Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z In a chilling scene, he witnesses a man he had formerly enslaved and abused now whipping another black man in the square. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The book features essays on the changing role of the country house as well as a frank discussion of enslaved people and their roles at these estates. Perspective | The ‘Downton Abbey’ movie trailer is out. What to read while you wait for the film. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, of course, claimed the message of the psalm for enslaved African Americans. Frederick Douglass, July 4th, and remembering Babylon in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The museum is located on the site of that former wharf, overlooking Charleston Harbor, where many enslaved Africans first entered the United States. International African American Museum Sets Opening for June After Sudden Delay 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z As a curious child, Brown said she first learned about the massacre after reading about the history of enslaved Black people at school. Tulsa massacre documentaries offer deep dive into tragedy 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z In a conversation before the premiere of “13th,” Ms. DuVernay explained how prisoners are being enslaved, why she chose to hire only women to direct her television show and why she dislikes the word “diversity.” Ava DuVernay on Modern Slavery in America 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z To be enslaved to the conventions of narrative, or to the expectations and demands of financial backers, can be frustrating. Gus Van Sant’s Next Picture Will Be a Watercolor 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z But Schuyler also enslaved people, by some accounts among the most in the Albany area at the time. Philip Schuyler Is Knocked Off His Pedestal in Albany 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z He describes a Maryland county in which about 10 percent of enslaved people 16 to 25 were sold in an 18-month period. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Because records on Green's contributions are not easily traced due to his enslaved status, Risen treads carefully, he puts forward the idea that Green "helped" Daniel. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Like many enslaved people, her belief system fused Christian and African beliefs. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z At 63, she enrolled in a university that sold her enslaved ancestors. Perspective | As hopes rise for a return to the stage later this year, D.C.-area theaters sing: We’re still here! 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z His series will eventually consist of 75 sculptures, for the enslaved Africans who rebelled. U.S.T.A. and the Armory Show to Bring 5 Artists to the U.S. Open 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Thanks to enslaved and free African American presidential cooks, many Southern-born presidents and executive residence staffers could always get “a taste of home” that they craved. From pig’s feet to corn bread, a history of soul food in the White House 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z A huge bust of York, a Black man who was enslaved by explorer William Clark, sits atop a pedestal in a Portland, Oregon, park. Sculpture of enslaved explorer mysteriously appears in Oregon park 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z As that fact has settled into American consciousness, Monticello has been working to provide a richer sense of the complex interactions between Jefferson and the enslaved people who lived there. Perspective | Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z “How could YOU become enslaved?” reads the bottom of what the show calls a “Wheel of Misfortune.” Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z His misdeeds follow him to a Passover Seder, where he reads the story of the plagues that besiege the Egyptians, who have enslaved the Jewish people. Contemplating a Canon of Jewish American Films 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z It is why Harriet Tubman sang the spiritual “Go Down, Moses” as a code to identify herself to those enslaved people who wanted to go with her to the Promised Land. Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’: Let’s Discuss 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z “There’s just this mad avalanche of material that’s available, so it’s so hard for aspiring young players to find where they should go” and “not be enslaved to yet another tool or device.” 2010-02-12T21:05:00Z Many of the Revolution’s leaders, Jolla points out, enslave Black people, and enslaved people are listed for sale in the same broadsheets that call on Americans to defend their freedom. Two Novelists, Avi and Brian Farrey, Use Fiction to Show Kids Why Facts Matter 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Keenly aware that the film — about a rebellion of enslaved laborers led by Nat Turner — was well timed to address the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, Searchlight clearly saw potential for a marketing coup. Perspective | ‘Mudbound’ is the Oscar movie we need right now. It would be a shame if Hollywood ignores it. 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z They bought enslaved Africans at African ports; they did not capture them. Scheepvaart Museum Reveals Tragedy of the Leusden 2013-07-05T19:32:51Z Chocolate was popular in the coffeehouse culture and was processed for sale and consumption by enslaved laborers in the North. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z In her debut novel, Jeffers, a National Book Award nominee for poetry, traces the history of an African-American family from the arrival of its earliest enslaved ancestors. Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Not only did Franklin own several enslaved people, but he also enabled slavery through his publications and the use of his general store. Ken Burns on Benjamin Franklin & our nation's flawed identity: "Race is the central question" of US 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z "Fury Road" begins with Max imprisoned and enslaved at the Citadel. 'Mad Max' kicks a post-apocalyptic extravaganza into overdrive 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z North of the mansion’s ruins are two dozen chimneys, the remains of cabins that housed enslaved Africans decades before the Carnegies discovered the island. On a Georgia Island, a Lot of Good Food and Plenty of Nothing 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But if the conversation is limited to questions of ownership, she said, “we’re missing the point, which is how the enslaved thought about their enslavement.” Your Ancestors Were Slaves. Who Owns the Photos of Them? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Juneteenth commemorates when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free. Beyoncé drops surprise single ‘Black Parade’ on Juneteenth 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Even more troubling, Dustin likens the master monster to the role-playing game character out to enslave a race it believes is inferior. Our Biggest Questions After the 'Stranger Things' Season 2 Finale 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Survivors said that guys committed suicide, tried mutinies, or battled among the enslaved over food and water. "Hard to stomach": "Buoyancy" director on the horrors of enslaved labor in the Thai fishing industry 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Before it was Oakland, it was the home of the Huichin people, who resisted Spanish colonialism but were eventually enslaved, massacred and displaced. A guide to Oakland’s rich history and resilience, from a waterfront saloon to the shores of Lake Merritt 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The show includes staged photographs by Udemezue that re-create moments from Haitian and Jamaican insurrectionary history, and a bust of an enslaved woman, sprouting chains from her marble-colored scalp, by the artist Tau Lewis. Playing Hoodoo: Renée Stout and “The Rootworker’s Table” 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Ashton was rumored to have fathered children with an enslaved woman, Susanna Queen; he named two of her children as beneficiaries in his will. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z “They would describe their social interactions with other religious groups, with enslaved people, with rituals and traditions,” she added. Long-Lost Letters Bring Word, at Last 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z In ’s grand oratorio “Israel in Egypt,” it is the God of the Israelites who wreaks vengeance on the enslaving pharaoh, with no need of Facebook or . Music Review: A Pharaonic Smackdown as Envisioned by Handel 2011-02-24T23:41:03Z One of the hallmarks of her genius is to approach her themes from unexpected subject positions, like the enslaved woman who faces a witchcraft trial in “I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.” 2 Novels by ‘Alternative Nobel’ Winner Take On Power and Its Abuses 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z When the war ended, the majority of Charleston’s Black residents — some free, some enslaved — were evacuated aboard British ships. Assaults and Occupations in Wartime 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z During the slave trade millions were enslaved under the justification that Africans were savages and primitive. No easy walk to freedom: MLK’s anti-racism crusade needs to be renewed in today’s world 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z For another, Mr. Hinton “recognized the establishment without being enslaved by it.” The Man Behind the New Front Row 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Nearly 46 million people are enslaved globally, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index, which estimated there were 11,700 victims living in Britain. Britain cracks down on illegal nail-salon workers in fight against modern slavery 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Biographers have made up figures about her, from the number of enslaved people she rescued to the bounty on her head, while others have misquoted her, including Hillary Clinton and Kanye West. Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Like many African Americans, he was descended from people who were enslaved, leaving a question mark over his origins. Samuel L Jackson: 'A fullness comes upon me every time I land in Africa' 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z In a turn of irony, Kaneisha, a famous writer who lives in the present day, is “still mentally enslaved and is bonded by her history,” Kalukango said. Joaquina Kalukango Isn’t Afraid to Speak Up Anymore 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z It centers on the son of a formerly enslaved man — Tony Todd plays the title demon — who, once upon a time, was punished by racists for loving a white woman. ‘Candyman’ Review: Who Can Take a Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Blood? 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z In addition to the 1850 record, the researchers found an 1840 census entry showing one enslaved person in the Hopkins household. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Walker, a daughter of enslaved Louisianans who went on to train 23,000 sales agents to hawk Black hair care products, becoming America’s first self-made female millionaire. Dancing Despite the Rain 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z He said it spoke to the centuries of labor free and enslaved African Americans have contributed to building the United States. The story behind the design of the African American history museum 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z In her celebrated children’s book “The People Could Fly,” Virginia Hamilton imagines the story of enslaved Africans who remembered and reclaimed their ability to fly, escaping their imprisoned lives. Revisiting the Legend of Flying Africans 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z At its height, 3,000 formerly enslaved residents lived on 200 acres. 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z She won a MacArthur “genius” grant in 2017 and wrote an opera based on the autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, a Muslim man from Africa who was enslaved in South Carolina. Rhiannon Giddens to Lead Silkroad’s Musical Explorations 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z However, with some work and dedication, an African American genealogist can reconstruct the past and understand their ancestors’ lives, even as enslaved individuals. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Other Salem stories blame Tituba, an enslaved woman in the household of the Reverend Samuel Parris, for teaching witchcraft to the local girls. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Magnolia retains the quarters where enslaved people lived, he said, to provide a “powerful opportunity for us to talk about that aspect of our history.” Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Instead of fabricating Paris’s seedy glamour, Bey’s photographs imagine nighttime scenes experienced by fugitive enslaved people on the Underground Railroad. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The area is said to have been settled about a century earlier when, in 1794, a formerly enslaved Black man, Benjamin Darling, bought nearby Horse Island and made a home there with his wife. Paul Harding Captures the Quiet Side of Calamity 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z That, and a willingness to listen to abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, whose devotion to emancipation and equality for Black Americans, free or formerly enslaved, helped shift Lincoln's political fortunes and his views. "Abraham Lincoln" and "Lincoln's Dilemma" clarify a few things about uncomfortable history 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Everybody still seems to be enslaved in Egypt, as Szyk himself metaphorically was, though his British publisher asked him to delete overt references to the Nazis. Critic?s Notebook: Put Yourself in the Story of Passover 2011-04-17T23:21:25Z Both were homicidal paranoiacs, determined to deport, enslave and exterminate entire categories of human beings: in Stalin’s case, the kulaks during the collectivization campaign; in Hitler’s, not just Jews but Slavs, Romani and numerous others. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z I felt like an enslaved person waiting to be sold as they determined whether my appearance was worthy enough to exploit. Does this smart watch come with an app to deal with casual racism? 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z These notices served as some of the first American forms of music criticism: An enslaved Black person performed, and a White listener evaluated their talents. Review | A new biography depicts B.B. King as ‘the first guitar hero.’ But does it truly see him? 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The floor tiles and bathroom stalls covered over the story of the enslaved woman, who was owned by Jefferson and had a long-term relationship with him. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z It will trace what she says is America’s collective trauma from its founding on the backs of enslaved Africans to the burgeoning economic and mental health impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Niece says ‘cruel and traitorous’ Trump belongs in prison 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Another Savannah native, Karen Wortham, started her touring business, Indigo Journey, in 2009, named for the dye that enslaved Africans used on clothing, staining their hands and feet purple. For Black tour guides in Savannah, the historical is personal 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z They put a brand on enslaved Africans when they came here and kept that brand on them. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z She’s appalled by the “solitary, joyless rectitude” of another enslaved Trojan who insists on covertly burying Priam and performing funeral rites at the grave. Review | Pat Barker’s ‘The Women of Troy’ continues her brilliant reassessment of the Trojan War 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z It drew a sharp connection between her enslaved ancestors and the painful early history of the 126-year-old school. What’s on Michelle Obama’s mind? Meet the speechwriter who puts it into words. 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Joseph Stewart, a retired corporate executive whose ancestors were enslaved by the Jesuits, will serve as the president of the Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation. "We are complicit": Only some churches are offering real reparations and repentance for slavery 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Building the university relies on the labor of enslaved African Americans, as well as free blacks. A timeline of racism in Charlottesville, from 1607 through 2017’s Unite the Right rally aftermath 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z “Unsilenced” introduces Juan Carson, his enslaved Navajo “son,” and one of three captive Indigenous servants in the household. A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Gerima depicts enslaved Africans on this plantation, and others in the vicinity, as forming a society that’s constituted by a sense of its own history. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z But she was also enmeshed in networks of ordinary Black people, free and enslaved, who were having their own debates over independence, slavery and freedom. A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The announcement was the latest development in a highly charged conversation about African-American remains in museum collections, especially those of the enslaved. What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z This debut novel centers on a romance between two enslaved men, Samuel and Isaiah, in Civil War-era Mississippi. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Pinette is enslaved by his appetite, which drags him through a series of humiliations in gyms, airplanes, amusement parks, hotels, restaurants and other places that are rarely ready for his size and needs. Comedy gold: John Pinette's I Say Nay Nay 2012-12-28T11:13:32Z Evidence uncovered in the last several decades suggests that the workers who built the great pyramids were not enslaved laborers, as has long been popularly believed. A Refreshing Look at Egypt’s Ancient Pyramids 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z They shrewdly assess the human flaws of revered literary and historical figures while caustically delineating America’s march toward empire over the bodies of indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans. Review | Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z “Particularly the idea that freedom was something bequeathed” to the enslaved, acceded by whites as an act of benevolence, rather than a fundamental component of human existence. Artwork Inspired by an Abraham Lincoln Moment Is Reimagined 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z “What do enslaved people think about what ‘no man’s land’ means? Jason Moran Pays Tribute to an Early Jazz Ancestor 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z “The Battle of Brooklyn,” an exhibition opening on Sept. 23 at the New-York Historical Society, will contain a portrait of George Washington with William Lee, an enslaved valet. George Washington Really Slept Here. So Did His Slave. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Some of the words draw a parallel between two cultures, colonized and enslaved, that communicated in rhythms when their spoken languages were suppressed. Dance Review: Soul Steps and Dance Theater of Ireland - Review 2011-11-23T23:44:41Z The segment culminates in a ring shout, a call-and-response circle that enslaved Africans developed to preserve their heritage while strategically not offending their white captors. Her Symphony Reclaims an Ancestral Story, and Classical Music 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z This novel — Jones’s first in more than 20 years — is set in 17th-century Brazil, where Almeyda, an enslaved girl, hears about Palmares — a community settled by people who have escaped bondage. 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z She sensed the significance of their mission — recovering the musical agency of enslaved people and their descendants — but figured the album they released through Smithsonian Folkways would mostly have an “archival, academic” impact. Amythyst Kiah Found Her Powerful Voice. Now She Has a Sound to Match It. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z McCarthy writes in a minimalist style that suits the terrain as the man and boy struggle to find food and stay away from the roaming cannibalistic gangs who enslave the weak. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z It turns out that her wealthy white father didn't have this great love for her mother, someone he had enslaved, but in fact sold her to an American. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z In 2003, they opened a restored Cook’s Room and, two years later, the kitchen, both of them integral to the labor of enslaved people on the mountaintop. Perspective | Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Her heritage extends through the bloodlines of enslaved ancestors and those who abused and exploited their bodies, confirming what Gates says about the story pressed into the DNA of Black folk. Angela Davis shows us why "Finding Your Roots" complicates and strengthens the American story 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Land ownership in America, a precarious notion for both the colonists and the enslaved, took on new meaning during Reconstruction. Black families once lived off their southern farmland. Their descendants are struggling to hold onto it. 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z It follows less closely the James River, whose fertile shores gave birth to America’s first great export — tobacco, grown and processed by enslaved Africans. On the Virginia Capital Trail, bike through 400 years of history in 52 miles 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z When lead actress Thuso Mbedu walked onto the set of “The Underground Railroad,” she often had to brace herself for what her character, the enslaved Cora, and those she loved were about to endure. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Brown enslaved about 12 girls or young women by taking their money, identification and cell phones and tightly controlling their contact with the outside world. Man ran sex ring, enslaved 12 girls: Charges 2012-05-16T19:22:00Z Frederick Douglass, an American abolitionist and orator, was born as an enslaved person in February 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Learning to use okra’s slime to an advantage in stews and other one-pot meals was a skill West Africans developed and brought with them when they were enslaved. Okra’s Triumph of Taste Over Texture 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Eventually, Carrasco said, the initiative hopes to find descendants of the farm’s enslaved Africans and invite their involvement in museum programs. A House Museum Has a New Message: New York Had Slavery, Too 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z The stories of deliverance from the pharaoh and from sin held out that rarest of things for the enslaved: hope. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “I’m just refusing to be enslaved by monolithic thought.” Perspective | Congratulations, you just survived the longest month in rap history 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Western Europe's appetite for "sweetness" helped fuel the horrific transatlantic trade of enslaved peoples, in which at least 15 million enslaved people from Africa were forced to work on plantations in the Americas. Uncovering the violent history of the Canadian sugar industry 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The title comes from the writings of Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved woman who spent seven years hiding in a crawl space to escape her master’s advances. 38 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z But last spring, a researcher at the Maryland State Archives became aware of an 1850 census record listing four enslaved people in the household of a man named Johns Hopkins, and contacted the university. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The foxes enslaved the wolves and put them to work building a vast underground city. Voice in the Wilderness 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The works depict everything from Oxum herself, which, like the partitions, represent spiritual and material wealth, to the enslaved people who were forced to labor during Brazil’s centuries-long search for gold. In Brazil, a Museum Within a Museum Restores a Legacy 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The answer to this question is that black people – both free and enslaved – invented many things during that time period. America’s always had black inventors – even when the patent system explicitly excluded them 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Others connect them to the enslaved Africans who picked Sea Island cotton here. On a Georgia Island, a Lot of Good Food and Plenty of Nothing 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Europeans colonized the Caribbean and exploited enslaved workers on sugar plantations to satisfy the collectively voracious sweet tooth of the continent. Ginger beer is a Jamaican holiday tradition — and my grandmother's is the spiciest 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Fourteen states and the District of Columbia now celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day, recasting a holiday that honored an explorer who presided over the enslaving and killing of Indigenous people. The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z DeVille was concerned, she said, with the way American public architecture projects a grand narrative that suppresses contradicting evidence — from the construction of the Capitol by, among others, enslaved Black laborers, to present-day state-sanctioned violence. 3 Artists Are Urged to Go Big. They Didn’t Hold Back. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Acquired by the International Slavery Museum in 2018, the “Am Not I A Man And A Brother’ painting depicts an enslaved African, kneeling, bound in chains and looking to the sky. British conservationists work to restore acclaimed slavery painting 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z What if the enslaved people of the antebellum South had collected their payback directly from their oppressors, rather than waiting for the Civil War? Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Her series about forced labor in the seafood industry led to the freeing of 2,000 enslaved Southeast Asian fisherman; because of her articles, Congress passed legislation requiring more transparency from food suppliers. Perspective | History has a massive gender bias. We’ll settle for fixing Wikipedia. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Before the Civil War, strict segregation didn’t make much sense in the South, where white enslavers traveled with the Black people they enslaved. ‘Traveling Black,’ a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z “Thomas Jefferson was surrounded by people, and the vast majority of those people were enslaved.” For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z You could say, well, there were coca leaves there and the Chinese invented fireworks, and the Africans were enslaving people, but it never gets real bad until the white people show up. "Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z “Hemp is the future to creating a green economy for the people who historically grew it for centuries as enslaved people,” Colrane explained in an interview earlier this year. Congress likely to legalize hemp in farm bill. It should also heal USDA’s history of discrimination 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z And yet, one night not so long ago, a handful of my enslaved brain cells sparked unexpectedly to life. I've decided to reclaim my life – by using an old Nokia phone 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z In need of troops, the British offered freedom to enslaved men but only if they joined the fight against the United States. In Florida, Solemn Shadows of the Early Underground Railroad 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Biographers have noted that Hamilton helped legal clients and family members buy and sell slaves, but they’ve been less clear on whether he enslaved people himself. Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The celebration marks June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Tex., received news from a Union general that put into effect the Emancipation Proclamation, issued nearly two and half years earlier. International African American Museum Sets Opening for June After Sudden Delay 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z From the kitchens run by enslaved people to the family tables of freemen to the careers of entrepreneurs and chefs, “Jubilee” covers the breadth of a true American cuisine. The 10 books to read in November 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z One of the strongest examples is the section devoted to the Middle Passage, the horrific voyage of enslaved Africans to this land between 1619 and 1808. The Much-Vaunted American Melting Pot, Cracks and All 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z There were lawyers who filed petitions on behalf of the enslaved. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Koffi is an indentured servant at the Night Zoo, a rundown menagerie where she and her mother are enslaved. 4 New Y.A. Fantasy Novels Full of Dark, Enchanting Twists 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Insurance companies insured slave ships and took on the enslaved as collateral. When a Kidnapping Ring Targeted New York’s Black Children 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z They also expose the powerlessness of enslaved men, who are denied the traditional male prerogative of protecting — which is also to say of controlling, of owning — their wives. Review: In Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Must-See and Won’t-See Collide 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The Nazis killed about six million Jews; Japanese invaders massacred millions of Chinese; European settlers in the Americas enslaved millions of Africans; the list goes on. Illuminating the Dark World of the Soviet Gulag, in Photos and Text 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Her beloved grandfather — who was born enslaved in Virginia and, once freed, became a farm laborer and the first Anderson to settle in Philadelphia — died the following year. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The children were malnourished and enslaved by adults. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z “The First Dixie Reader,” from North Carolina, is open to a story of Uncle Ned, an enslaved man who runs away to the North but returns, disillusioned. How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Women who are still able to reproduce are rounded up to become Handmaids, enslaved breeders for Commanders whose wives are “barren.” We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of “The Handmaid’s Tale” 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z But without the protection of the British navy, American ships in the Mediterranean frequently fell victim to Barbary pirates operating out of North African ports, who looted cargoes and enslaved those on board. U.S. refusal to negotiate ransoms may be risky Grain required less labor, so slave owners began to sell their enslaved people to plantation owners in the Deep South. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z The uncle and aunt designations were often bestowed on enslaved Blacks. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Earlier this month, she gamely posed next to a wax figure of herself as the familiar enslaved in a gold bikini Leia, calling it “Before and after.” Carrie Fisher’s glorious new incarnation: Advice columnist 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z After slavery was abolished in 1865, employers looking to get away with not fairly paying service workers, particularly those who were formerly enslaved, encouraged tipping instead. What Is Hospitality? The Current Answer Doesn’t Work. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z He has been told the workers there are “newly free,” but instead finds people “enslaved in all but name.” This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z To think about the enslavement of Indians over the last 500 years can help us think about the ways in which people are enslaved today. The new book 'The Other Slavery' will make you rethink American history 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Liberia was initially a colony of the American Colonization Society, a group created in 1816 to send formerly enslaved people back to Africa. Marking a Different Thanksgiving Tradition, From West Africa 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z For Love and her fellow travelers, there is an excavating, a reclaiming of things left to history: Jefferson’s great clock, high beds, the very stairway trod by enslaved people. Review | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s ‘My Monticello’ explores America’s racist past — and present — with grace 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Wheatley was kidnapped from her home in West Africa, enslaved and brought to North America when she was 7 or 8 years old. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z But the real “hard history,” she said, was borne by the enslaved, who were listed on the census forms without even the dignity of a name. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Let us choose to recognize the act first, and by default the subject who enacted these crimes through the use of the word enslaved. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Tableaus and galleries, too, clarify that “liberty” didn’t mean the same thing for everyone — including enslaved African Americans, Native Americans and other marginalized people. The Museum of the American Revolution Receives $50 Million 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z It’s about the Gullah Geechee community in South Carolina, people whose ancestors were enslaved West Africans and whose food, language and customs are under attack. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Washington often shared his tent with an enslaved African who served as his valet. Museum of the American Revolution set to open in Philadelphia 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Of all the intricacies of slavery that haunt me, of all the activities deemed beyond the realm of the enslaved, the anti-literacy laws of 1831 always struck me as the most curious. Thank you to that white man down in Florida: Lessons learned from reading a banned book 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z But perhaps the most momentous change has been in the status of narratives, family memories and oral histories of people who were enslaved or who descended from enslaved people. Perspective | Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z That book repeated the story about Samuel Hopkins, while also generally depicting slavery as “a benign institution” and enslaved people as “contented and loyal,” Professor Jones writes. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The enslaved were a lot more scrutinized in those places, a lot more restricted. Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z A re-created 19th-century village created by the descendant of enslaved people from Martinique, including traditional huts and a Creole garden. Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z During the Civil War, their enslaved housekeeper Selina Norris Gray protected the tent fabric and other Washington artifacts from Union soldiers looting Lee’s home in Arlington, Va. George Washington Really Slept Here. So Did His Slave. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z These properties were forced work camps, where enslaved Africans and their descendants were tortured and killed. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z While simplistic historians tend to view Lincoln as a god-like man who with a sweep of his hand freed enslaved people, the reality is far more complicated. CNN's "Lincoln" docuseries is a fascinating treasure trove for fans of the best Republican president 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z And it remains unclear if the enslaved child was owned by one of the other men in the painting, who researchers believe include Yale’s son-in-laws, Lord James Cavendish and Dudley North. Painting of Yale namesake and enslaved child back on display 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z But a version of that dish was also fed to enslaved West Africans just before they boarded ships to the United States. In Majority-Black New Orleans, Chefs Are Rewriting ‘Whitewashed’ History 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z It debuts with a preview on Saturday, the Juneteenth holiday commemorating when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free. No apology: Tavis Smiley makes comeback bid after PBS firing 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The museum intends to conduct further research on those spaces, as well as restore other rooms where enslaved people lived and worked that until now have been used for administrative purposes. A House Museum Has a New Message: New York Had Slavery, Too 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Other stories suggest the enslaved turned to the supernatural realm in order to subvert the conditions of slavery itself. The Haunted Past 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Tarzan agrees only after a friend persuades him that King Leopold might be enslaving the people of Congo. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Riverdale’ and ‘Royal Crackers’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Texts in the Renaissance galleries refer to enslaved Africans in 15th-century Antwerp and Florence. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z These “contrabands,” like centuries of enslaved people before them, challenged the pro-slavery federal government to confront the political reality wrought by its peculiar institution. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Her book opens in the early 18th century, when the French controlled Detroit and the majority of enslaved people were both Native American and female. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z It’s always bizarre watching a Southern film with happy enslaved people or a New York drama populated only with white faces. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men were born equal with the right to liberty while he enslaved hundreds of people of African descent. How are we supposed to celebrate July 4 after Juneteenth? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z In “Saving Time,” Odell looks at how quantified time was exported around the world by colonialists and how plantation owners used early spreadsheets to track the labor of enslaved people. Time Has Been Codified and Commodified. Jenny Odell Wants to Set It Free 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z Imagine a musical version of the orcs, Tolkien’s enslaved former elves, made to serve the cult of an all-powerful moving image under the baton of a brainwashed wizard. Review: In ‘The Lord of the Rings in Concert,’ Musicians in Sync With a Soundtrack 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z “There was a lot of formerly enslaved people who moved to the West, and the culture of the United States wasn’t as established in the West,” Beetz said. Zazie Beetz and Regina King on Their Big Battle in ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z One marginalized woman earns special focus in the society’s presentation: Tituba, an enslaved servant in the Salem household of the Rev. Samuel Parris, whose daughter and niece accused her of witchcraft. Are the Salem Witch Trials Part of Women’s History? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Imaginative literature … does not enslave; it liberates the mind of man. Chinua Achebe obituary 2013-03-22T13:56:09Z “I will never be enslaved,” she says with conviction, before counting the ways. ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Has the Most Exciting Comics (and the Silliest) 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z But he himself also captured enslaved people and smuggled them on board a ship with a Portuguese flag. A Dutch Museum Celebrates, and Reflects 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The shameful record includes gynecological experiments on enslaved women, forced sterilization, unequal access to medical care and culturally incompetent doctors. Descendants of men from horrifying Tuskegee study want to calm virus vaccine fears 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Her suspenseful narrative unfolds in alternating chapters about Esther Akello, an enslaved girl who later escapes and Jane Wood, an American journalist covering the atrocities in Africa. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls,’ and More 2014-02-26T21:15:54Z The Britons were defeated and the Saxons went on to create Wessex, enslaving many of the remaining Britons. Strolling the ancient hillforts of southern England 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z But she offers a more definitive reading, arguing that a range of primary sources “prove Hamilton purchased enslaved people for himself.” Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Tate, 33, presents these artifacts at every Honeysuckle dinner, to humanize and recognize the work and lives of his enslaved forebears. Pop-Up Dinners That Share a Culture, Course by Course 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It’s a devastating story that manages to capture the degradations of slavery among the enslaved and the enslavers. ‘Homegoing,’ by Yaa Gyasi: A bold tale of slavery for a new ‘Roots’ generation 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z She is Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, whose novel, “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” focuses on a young Black woman who tracks her family’s history to a Georgia town where her ancestors were enslaved. National Book Awards Announces Its 2021 Nominees 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z In both metaphors the absence of self-mastery and freedom derive from an external agent: for the enslaved person, his owner; for the addict, his substance. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z In a foreword, historian Freddi Williams Evans explains New Orleans’s Congo Square, a marketplace where people of African heritage, both enslaved and free, were allowed to express themselves through music and dance on Sunday afternoons. The best children’s and YA books of the month, February edition 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Completed after the Civil War, it was used for unloading cotton and timber, but in earlier days, enslaved people were made to assemble there. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z There was no question that Burns was an enslaved man and was Suttle’s property. “We waked up stark mad Abolitionists” 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z For nearly five centuries, European planters made dizzying fortunes in sugar, made possible by enslaving workers in colonized lands. Uncovering the violent history of the Canadian sugar industry 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Ta-Nehisi Coates’s first novel tells the story of an enslaved man who cheats death, and a new thriller by Stephen King imagines a chilling, mysterious center that steals and experiments on child prodigies. 17 New Books to Watch For in September 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The harvesting and shipment of cocoa, like other plantation crops, was an integral part of the transatlantic trade and was heavily reliant on the labor of enslaved Africans throughout the diaspora. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z McBride's writing style takes a boisterous approach to history, helped by presenting Brown through the perspective of a wide-eyed, young Kansas enslaved child whom the leader nicknames Onion. "The Good Lord Bird" is a zany, rollicking ride through the mania of abolitionist rebellion 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z When he was discharged, he came into possession of a coffee settlement where he held fourteen people enslaved, including Carby’s ancestors. An Intimate History of the British Empire 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z To tell the story of the American civil rights movement properly, a conscientious director would have to plot a course from at least 1619, when the first enslaved Africans arrived, to this week. In ‘Selma,’ King Is Just One of Many Heroes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The complexities around African-American remains — who might claim them? how do you determine enslaved status? — are enormous. What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z A scientist and a historian bond over their shared interest in a Civil War-era racehorse and his enslaved groom. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z “The Water Dancer,” set in mid-1800s Virginia, is about an enslaved man named Hiram Walker whose life is deeply affected when he nearly drowns in a carriage accident. Get a First Look at the Cover of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Forthcoming Novel 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z “And now,” he added, pausing before referencing the new movie in which Smith plays an enslaved man, “I watch ‘Emancipation’ just to see him get whooped.” Review: Chris Rock’s ‘Selective Outrage’ Strikes Back 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z They do not, of course — especially when the word “mistress” is modified by the crucial word “enslaved.” Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z More than half of Haiti’s 11 million people are believed to practice voodoo, a religion brought from West Africa centuries ago by enslaved men and women and practiced clandestinely under French colonial rule. Haiti voodoo leaders prepare temples for coronavirus sufferers 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z He considers growing pawpaws — which once fed his enslaved ancestors — as part of that movement, which promotes self-sufficiency. The Promise of Pawpaw 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z If the protagonists were mindless brutes enslaved to social conditioning, their doings would be something of a bore. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z Most readers also may not know that a planter could take out mortgages on his enslaved workers. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z In her first novel, Jeffers, a nominee for the National Book Award in poetry, traces the history of one family from the arrival of its first enslaved ancestors. 11 New Books Coming in August 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Lewis had escaped from Confederate imprisonment, had his life saved by an enslaved woman who hid him, and then, remembering that assistance, gave shelter to an African-American fleeing Oklahoma’s race riots in the 1920s. Exhibition Review: ‘Homefront and Battlefield’ Looks at Civil War Quilts 2014-05-05T20:59:16Z “We always knew the enslaved people had come here by boat,” Easterling said. Descendants of slaves and slave owners discover legacy of Maryland’s Sotterley Plantation 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z CAKEwalk, according to the museum description, “takes its name from competitions in which enslaved Black people performed exaggerated dances caricaturing the gestures, dances, and social customs of white plantation owners.” Telling Stories of Black Life Rescued Him 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The Cairo-based hip-hop group Arabian Knightz released "Rebel," a track about the uprising that included the lines "They killed us, slaughtered us, put us behind bars" and "enslaving us must end." Egypt: First the government, next the arts? 2011-02-14T02:35:00Z Upon Hemings' return, he worked in the kitchen of Monticello, and taught other enslaved cooks how to recreate the technically difficult dishes he learned. Why spoonbread matters 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Any other gathering among more than three enslaved people was against the law. On a New York Underground Railroad Tour, Lessons in Resistance 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The women are particularly good — Queen Cersei is both evil and sympathetic, Lady Stark is a formidable foe, Arya becomes the heart of the story while the terrified and enslaved Daenerys finds her inner strength. Television review: 'Game of Thrones 2011-04-15T14:17:00Z This should enhance the discussions about an enslaved woman’s journey to becoming one of the wealthiest women in the Caribbean and her winning fight against colonial authority. Perspective | Female-centered historical novels are dogged by questions of accuracy. Hence the author’s note. 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z Even in the face of incredible oppression, this book reminds us, enslaved people loved fiercely, adorned themselves and dreamed freely. Review | ‘The Prophets’ reimagines the lives of enslaved people with the epic love story of two men 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z This system ensured that white male slave owners who had children with the black women they enslaved contributed to their own wealth. Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The words of Margaret Garner, the enslaved woman who became the inspiration for Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” are the first words Coates uses to begin his historical narrative: “Never marry again in slavery.” My mother, the drug war and me: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates and forgiving my own black family in the age of mass incarceration 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Most of the surviving population has gone to outer space, where they live in colonies and enslave androids. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z “We’re finding evidence of enslaved bodies used at medical schools throughout the nation,” she said. What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z These people believe that the US government is eventually going to go street by street and enslave our citizens. Jason Alexander’s amazing gun rant 2012-07-22T20:38:00Z The history of spirituals, originally created by enslaved people in America, imbued the piece with pain, longing and — by the work’s joyful end — a feeling of catharsis. Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations’ still dances into audiences’ hearts 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Altan recognizes that to beat back the horrors of power intent on enslaving us all, bravery needs to come from readers, as well. Review | As Turkish writer Ahmet Altan is rearrested, his prison memoir is as urgent as ever 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The ads contain dates, locations and rewards, but they also describe how enslaved people looked, sounded and behaved. Review: Songs That Defy the ‘Quotidian Nature of Evil’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z And that's really what started it because the industries that make the money off of enslaving life, they make money for themselves and they don't want anybody interrupting those establishments. "40 Years a Prisoner" confronts the police we're supposed to trust "telling bold-faced lies" 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Smith this year has been shooting “Emancipation,” with director Antoine Fuqua, a true story about a heavily tortured enslaved man who emancipated himself from a Southern plantation and joined the Union Army in the 1860s. For Will Smith, a break point leads to ‘King Richard’ 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z In “Incendies,” “Prisoners” and “Sicario,” there’s this idea that revenge is a negative force that brings no peace, that we are enslaved by our pasts. Director Denis Villeneuve walks a fine line between art and commerce 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The setting is a fortress where Africans were held captive before being forced onto ships that would bring them to the United States, where they were enslaved. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Inside the Tubman Park visitor center, carefully crafted exhibits place her in the habitat of muskrats — as an enslaved girl separated from her family, Tubman tended their traps. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z There, Persephone joins a fearful group of virtually enslaved young women beset by a creeping sickness and strange visions. ‘The Convent’ Review: Twisted Sisters 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z In the 1999 movie “The Matrix,” humanity is enslaved by machines that maintain a simulation of reality to keep everyone compliant. Netflix Roulette, Where the Movies Never End 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z There has been an explosion of work on Native Americans and enslaved people, who are seen as crucially important in shaping American democracy. Clash of the Historians: Paper on Andrew Jackson and Trump Causes Turmoil 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z But it’s also a metaphor for the complex ways that American women — well-born and ordinary, free and enslaved — helped, as the show’s curator, Valerie Paley, put it, “enact the Constitution on the ground.” Dolley Madison and Her Peers Ran Their Own ‘Pussy-Hat’ Brigade 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z His father had been born and raised in a two-room cabin built on an Edisto Island plantation to house enslaved people. A Cook Who Never Used a Cookbook Now Has Her Own 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z I think: who had to be enslaved in order for you to be able to afford a portrait painter? God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z From the time we were enslaved, there were complicated relationships between black and white people. Jimmy Carter and Jacqueline Woodson on Race, Religion and Rights 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The books will build upon the Times’ magazine special issue from last summer that centered on the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans to be brought to the U.S. and slavery’s enduring legacy. Series of books planned, based on NYT’s “1619 Project” 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z He's also an 18th century white plantation owner in life who, after he was made a vampire, allows his lover Lestat de Lioncourt to feed on the enslaved people forced to work his land. Changing "Interview with the Vampire" made it more alluring while staying true to its spirit 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Black Panther was cathartic because of how it violently confronted America’s political history, when enslaved Africans were commodified as free labour. ‘It’s not a movie, it’s a moment’: Crazy Rich Asians takes on Hollywood 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z “From the belly of the slave ship to a freeholder, the spirits of the African ancestors beckon the enslaved souls guiding them to the first free village,” reads the inscription. Slavery Was Part of Barbados Life for Centuries. But Its History Can Be Hard to Find 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z At the room’s entrance is a shrine to Escrava Anastacia, the Brazilian folk icon presented as an enslaved woman who has been forced to wear an iron mask that prevents her from speaking. Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Plantation overseers were known to dig holes in the ground so that they could whip the backs of pregnant enslaved women while protecting their “property”: the unborn children. ‘Woman’ Is an Ambitious Attempt to Capture Four Centuries of Being Female 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The voice also allows Cassius to become a “power caller” at the company, a position that, the viewer learns in time, is inseparable not merely from betraying but enslaving his brothers and sisters. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z In antebellum New Orleans, Congo Square was where people of African heritage, free and enslaved, were allowed to gather Sunday afternoons. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Throughout, similar panels explore the meaning of events for Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans and other marginalized people. A New Museum of the American Revolution, Warts and All 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z They enslaved and conquered and built an empire, albeit briefly, that included large swaths of England and Scotland. Vikings in London, Glamorous but Just Like Family 2014-03-28T13:35:00Z When he encouraged leniency in the discipline of enslaved men, it was because severe punishment “would destroy their value” and “degrade them in their own eyes by the whip.” Perspective | Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z One man wants to enslave Indians to regain his status. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The void is by turns enslaving and emancipating in “The Handmaiden,” which plays with familiar form as a way to deliver unexpected meaning. Review: ‘The Handmaiden’ Explores Confinement in Rich, Erotic Textures 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z In short order, the action zooms back to 1850 and Jarret, a skilled groom whose enslaved father had bought his own freedom but couldn’t afford his son’s. In ‘Horse,’ Geraldine Brooks Sets a Consideration of Race at the Track 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Like the rest of New Spain, Florida had long been a refuge for enslaved Africans; Spanish law protected them at the Negro Fort as surely as it shielded Kirkham’s slaves in Monterrey. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z This was especially important for enslaved African-Americans, who invented group dances like the Ring Shout or the Cakewalk as subversive acts against racial oppression. The School That Camille A. Brown Built 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Nearly two decades ago, the remains of enslaved people were discovered buried on property once owned by the Schuyler family. Philip Schuyler Is Knocked Off His Pedestal in Albany 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z The objects will allow for “so many ways and narratives” of explaining what life in the house was like for the original owners and their two enslaved persons, she added. More of Collector’s Dutch and British Objects to Go to Museums 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z They may eventually rise up and enslave you, but for now robots will save you an awful lot of legwork. Stuart Heritage's School of TV 2010-04-12T14:55:00Z Hiram will perhaps, with practice, be able to beam enslaved men and women from South to North. With ‘The Water Dancer,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes His Fiction Debut 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s a city that commemorates Confederate Memorial Day yet proudly welcomes thousands of international visitors to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the country’s first memorial dedicated to enslaved Black people and lynching victims. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z While some enslaved plaintiffs had argued for their freedom based on the free status of an ancestor, skin color became increasingly used as an excuse to decide against them. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z “Europe is best remembered by those who were never there,” Luciana says while fanned by a silent, attentive, presumably enslaved black man. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Rather, Mona sees Shola more or less as movie-viewers do, and Gerima shows a complex society in which enslaved Africans, despite the horrors and pressures that they endure, actively develop a society in exile. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z There, without pay or freedom — or even the promise of liberation — he works alongside other enslaved men, both Cambodian and Burmese. ‘Buoyancy’ Review: Enduring Horrors on the Sea, and Struggling to Survive 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z He followed those novels with “The Underground Railroad,” about a young enslaved woman who escapes from a Georgia plantation, which injected a slightly steampunk, sci-fi aesthetic into an intricately researched historical narrative. Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z One day, I read about an enslaved woman whose master was working her to death to pick as much cotton as she could on a plantation in Mississippi. Raising a black son in the US: ‘He had never taken a breath, and I was already mourning him’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Hammon was an enslaved poet whose interest in emancipation extended beyond his own life, to the next generation. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z For every stone monument to democracy, an enslaved person forced to build a monument to democracy. Perspective | The fantasy of repudiating Trumpism is dead 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z In South Carolina in 1739, a group of enslaved Africans marching to drums initiated an uprising known as the Stono Rebellion. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z “The neoliberal ‘good life’ is a facade/individual trip and is literally killing/enslaving the rest of the world.” From sponsors to socialism: the return of Instagram star Essena O'Neill 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Bananas, sugar, and tea, the exotic products of enslaved labor, were increasingly available. An Intimate History of the British Empire 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Though the Washingtons were pleased with Hercules’s cooking, having an enslaved chef in Pennsylvania created political and logistical headaches as well as a potential public relations nightmare for them. The man who fed the first president — and hungered for freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The mother, an enslaved woman named Rose, gave the sack — containing a dress, pecans and a braid of her hair — to her daughter Ashley in 1852. Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z In addition to Desert Storm, they will commemorate World War I, the global war on terrorism, Native American veterans, and African Americans — both free and enslaved — who served in the American Revolution. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z This novel imagines the life of one of those soldiers, Richard Etheridge, the son of a Black woman who was enslaved by his father. 12 New Books Coming in February 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The potentate supports the mission with the full force of his harsh reign—he offers Percy a crew of enslaved indigenous people, as well as rafts and other supplies. “The Lost City of Z” Resuscitates Cinema’s Classic Adventure Tale 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The nearly life-size, oil-on-canvas portrait shows Elihu Yale and family members sitting at a table with tobacco pipes and wine glasses, while an enslaved boy with a metal collar locked around his neck looks on. Painting of Yale namesake and enslaved child back on display 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z We are supposed to take in the quiet irony of a woman, enslaved, at the feet of a once-proud icon of American history. Weaponized white feminism in "The Handmaid's Tale" and "When They See Us" 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z “A lot of them were free Blacks or were enslaved people running for Canada.” On the trail of Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania’s equal rights champion 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z At least 29 enslaved people died on that voyage, and the survivors were either bought directly from the ship, or sent farther inland to be sold, Easterling said. Descendants of slaves and slave owners discover legacy of Maryland’s Sotterley Plantation 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Critics have long said that the slaves are depicted as well-treated, content and loyal to their masters, a trope that rewrites the reality of how enslaved people were forced to live. HBO Max Pulls ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Citing Racist Depictions 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z When she was a teenager, Tubman happened to be at a dry goods store when an overseer was trying to capture an enslaved person who had left his slave labor camp without permission. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z According to a regional newspaper, Frank Ware, a son of one of the enslaved, introduced himself to Wilson and recounted wheeling him around in a wheelbarrow as a boy. Woodrow Wilson’s birthplace: A 4,000-square-foot manse 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z He may have been buoyed by the successful flight of Martha Washington’s longtime enslaved maid Oney Judge in April 1796 as well as of a couple of other of Washington’s slaves. The man who fed the first president — and hungered for freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Unlike millions of other enslaved people, Flora did not leave without a trace, though little else is known of her. Review | Before photography, the silhouette helped leave an impression 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z It may be good fun, but there's also lots of mass murder in the Decepticons' machinations to enslave Earth. 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon:' Plot, 3-D change for the better 2011-06-28T16:59:03Z In 1801, he turned his attention to Jefferson, whom he alleged was having a relationship with a woman he enslaved named Sally Hemings. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z It pays homage to, but isn’t enslaved by, the band’s best work from the past. U2’s ‘Songs of Innocence’ is a surprise — both that it exists and that it’s actually not bad Most students of Gullah-Geechee cuisine thought Carolina Gold was the only rice that enslaved Africans in the coastal South had cooked. Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The Brazilian dishes Ms. Sokoh discussed arrived in West Africa with formerly enslaved people from Brazil who settled in Lagos in the 19th century. A Stew That Captures the Essence of the Sea 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z For a brief but life-defining moment — just over two years — she, unlike the vast majority of enslaved people, was in a place where the law was on her side. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Historians think that Nat Turner, a minister and enslaved field hand, was holding it when he was captured two months after leading a rebellion against slaveholders in Southampton County, Va. As Nat Turner led a bloody slave rebellion, he carried this bible 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The statement said that Duterte told Seagal that “movies are a reflection of life” and “reiterated his strong stance against illegal drugs because it enslaves people to a form of synthetic chemical.” Steven Seagal meets 'The Punisher' Duterte, talks drug war 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Confederate officers circulate among the belles and the enslaved workers; later there will be some boasting about impending victory over the treacherous “blue-bellied” enemy. ‘Antebellum’ Review: Look Away, Dixie Land 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Wagner was no fan of industrialisation: his depiction, to the sound of 18 anvils, of Alberich’s enslaved dwarves mining more gold, is terrifying. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “One is the expansion of American capitalism on the backs of enslaved human beings,” said Mr. Baptist, who grew up in Durham, N.C., the son of a librarian mother and a biochemist father. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z This “sport” profits hugely from these athletes’ charisma — which is, in most cases, unmistakably Black — while keeping them enslaved with electronic wrist restraints. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Abolitionists embraced this view, as it undermined—but did not refute—arguments that some tribes were different in ways that justified enslaving them. The Bible’s racist monstrosities: How the “word of God” has been — and still is — used to oppress 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z In the Deep South where enslaved blacks comprise half the population there was an incredibly brutal, strictly policed, heavily surveilled society. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The Robinsons, devout Quakers and uncompromising abolitionists, ran a Merino sheep farm and orchard here, and joined a network of Northerners that helped form the Underground Railroad, aiding enslaved African-Americans in their quest for freedom. Using History to Provide a Lens Into Today’s Politics 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Theory 1: As a novel about an “entertainment” weaponized to enslave and destroy all who look upon it, “Infinite Jest” is the first great Internet novel. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z But given her position as an enslaved person and a woman of color, it’s almost certain that Tituba’s confession was coerced. Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting the powerless 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “Sethe, me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody,” Paul D, a friend from the Kentucky estate where they were enslaved, tells her. Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Some did not want to be reminded of their enslaved past; Haley’s mother dismissed her mother’s tales of her African ancestry and the peculiar foreign words he and his two younger brothers called “Grandma’s noises.” Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z He talked with and learned from enslaved people in Barbados. A radical for our time: Benjamin Lay, the Quaker dwarf abolitionist you didn't learn about in class 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z White women were more likely to inherit enslaved people than land. A New Book Speaks Plainly About the Large Role White Women Played in Perpetuating Slavery 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Brutalized and enslaved for life, we embraced a religion of hope, freedom and redemption. Honoring civil rights heroine in song 2011-01-31T15:17:00Z Jackdaw was enslaved in a textile plantation in Alabama owned by a vast corporation called Garments of the Greater South. ‘Underground Airlines’ imagines a modern U.S. where slavery is still legal 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Also on view here are 19 examples of the fierce face jugs, known for their exaggerated features, grimacing teeth and wild eyes, that enslaved potters made for themselves — sometimes, it is believed, as tombstones. The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z A panel tells the story of Elizabeth Key, a mixed-race enslaved woman who sued for her and her son’s freedom. In Jamestown, a new exhibition pays homage to the women history overlooked 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z America was a nation of farmers, artisans, merchants and the enslaved; it still was when he died in 1862. Guns, Gunfights and the Legends of the Wild West 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z “When you invoke the name of an enslaved person, you have to give some kind of respect,” said James Monroe Iglehart, who plays Jefferson. As Broadway Returns, Shows Rethink and Restage Depictions of Race 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Does she feel enslaved by the urgency of that period, that affair, defined by it? Joan Bakewell: 'Women have a different way of being thick-skinned' 2010-04-04T20:00:00Z “He enslaved black women and he used them as experiments.” In Montgomery, a City Embedded With Pain, Finding Progress 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z One of the things that interests me — and I do not want to offend, but to really engage with the material because it's worthy of it — is asking Black actors to play enslaved people. "Antebellum," Janelle Monae's cross-dimensional thriller, was literally born from a nightmare 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z We could design out poverty and ignorance and enslaving women’s work, and Chandigarh was the embodiment of such values. Auctioning off utopia 2013-07-14T22:00:00Z Reject the politics of division that have existed in this country since the 17th century, when white property owners convinced poor whites that their interests aligned with wealthy whites rather than indentured and enslaved blacks. Cultural appropriation: It's about more than pho and sombreros 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z They were also battling other enslaved guys for personal space. "Hard to stomach": "Buoyancy" director on the horrors of enslaved labor in the Thai fishing industry 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Those shoes incapacitate another man wearing them; he dies, is buried and is revived as a zombie, enslaved, to cut cane in a field with other such afflicted people. ‘Zombi Child’ Review: Race, Class and Voodoo 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The remaining population, he says, will be herded into crowded cities where they will be enslaved by the elite, turning the Earth into a “prison planet.” How Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, got Donald Trump’s ear 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Other special tours focus on first lady Martha Washington, the enslaved people who lived and worked at Mount Vernon, and music of the Revolution. Two Virginia estates central to George Washington’s life share little common ground 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Did you know that more people are being enslaved today that at any given time in history? If We Can’t Measure Slavery, Does It Exist? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The girls’ only salable “property” is an enslaved woman, a situation that becomes more and more vexing to Prudence’s Quaker conscience. Review | A black man shot by a white police officer tells his shocking story in ‘No Justice’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z McCarthy’s strongest rebuke, however, is reserved for Frank Wilderson, who, in his recent philosophical memoir, “Afropessimism,” argues that Black people today are still enslaved, that the plantation is inescapable. To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition Is Resistance 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The words are especially poignant because jugs of this sort were often used to store meat for enslaved people. The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z But it also shook him to think of his ancestors and others who were enslaved to provide ever more material for gins to process. Firing up Weird Science at the Whitney 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z W. E. B. DuBois claimed that Foster's songs – in contrast to other minstrel songs – represented a bridge between the music of enslaved people and 20th century Black songwriters. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z For purposes of policing Blacks’ access to firearms, differences in legal status between African-Americans who were free and those who were enslaved were often swept aside. Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Every Sunday at noon, a small alley in Centro Havana thunders into life with rumba, a rhythmic music and dance originating in the dockside homes of enslaved Africans in Matanzas and Havana. 10 of the best places to enjoy the dances and music of Cuba 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z From their inception, colleges established to educate the descendants of enslaved people have been given less and expected to do more. Black Colleges, From the Start, Were Given Less and Expected to Do More 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z I stood alone on a short bridge that crosses the wetlands and saw a deep scar left by the enslaved laborers who long ago cut a canal that serviced timber production. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Through the initiative’s continuing work, the museum will feature contemporary art, historical exhibits and public programs that are inspired not only by enslaved Africans but also by the Lenape, the region’s Indigenous inhabitants. A House Museum Has a New Message: New York Had Slavery, Too 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Drums were prohibited among enslaved people — so as to prevent the exchange of coded messages. Review | My spirits needed a lift. Violinist Hilary Hahn and the NSO delivered, in D major. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z President George Washington enslaved Black people, including his personal chef, Hercules. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Certainly the vast majority were enslaved, but there is evidence of free blacks in New York, well before this gravesite was closed in the 1790s. Museum Review | African Burial Ground Visitor Center: A Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life 2010-02-25T22:31:00Z According to the Walk Free Foundation’s Global Slavery Index, almost 36 million people are currently enslaved across the globe — largely in China, Pakistan, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Russia and India. Slavery still exists — and millions of people are suffering 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z I wanted to read this particular poem because we forget that some of the people who were enslaved ran away. Poet Nikki Giovanni shares her wisdom about Biden, cowardly racism, and why love is a pineapple 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z In 2016, Georgetown acknowledged that hundreds of people who were enslaved on Jesuit plantations were sold in 1838 to farms in Louisiana to pay off some of the university’s debts. 'Built by my family': America's grand buildings constructed by slaves 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Director of the Citing Slavery Project, Simard is building a database of cases involving enslaved people and modern cases that cite them as a precedent. Fighting racial bias with an unlikely weapon: Footnotes 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z She was born enslaved in the 1790s, and, after her freedom in 1827, she changed her name from Isabella Van Wagenen, baptizing herself anew as Sojourner Truth. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z This language, that use of the drug was "accepted or tolerated" for enslaved peoples has a rhetorical purpose. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z There’s a really good training sequence with Pat Morita, and also a 150-year montage where white men denied women the right to vote and people of color were enslaved and disenfranchised. Perspective | Centuries of male-dominated history brought us here. How do we get everyone to accept that? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Saint-Saëns thought this biblical story of a fateful love affair, set against the backdrop of enslaved Israelites and their Philistine oppressors, would best be presented as a stirring concert oratorio. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Judge is among the 19 enslaved people highlighted in “Lives Bound Together: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon,” the first major exhibition here dedicated to the topic. In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z At that time, I knew very little about the lives of Lewis and Martha while they were enslaved. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Antoinette Nwandu’s solution in this searing drama is to weld the story of two black youths in a city like Chicago to spiritual antecedents including enslaved African-Americans, biblical Israelites and Beckett’s hobos Vladimir and Estragon. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Spirituals arose because enslaved Africans assimilated English hymns and made them their own. Fighting Racism Even, and Especially, Where We Don’t Realize It Exists 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Bernini’s “Daphne and Apollo,” among the most delicately carved marble sculptures ever created, must share its gallery with three sculptures of chained enslaved couples whose finishes recall polystyrene packaging. Alone in the Temporary New Ruins of Rome 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z George Washington’s stepgrandson, George Washington Parke Custis, did history a great service by paying some attention to Hercules’s culinary skill, professionalism, resourcefulness and personality at a time when enslaved people were generally ignored. The man who fed the first president — and hungered for freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Brown’s men expected that thousands of free and enslaved Black people would join their efforts and were dismayed when they failed to materialize, according to interviews in The Times. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The editorial controversially argued that the models for two paragons of classical beauty had actually been enslaved Ethiopians. In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, some remains in Hog Hammock, the last of a dozen hamlets on Sapelo Island peopled by the descendants of enslaved Africans. Georgia’s Sea Islands: A destination worth the paddle 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Slavery had given shape to the city from its earliest days, when enslaved Africans cleared the forests and plowed the farms. When a Kidnapping Ring Targeted New York’s Black Children 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z And I hear a lot of black people, including myself, saying, “I couldn’t have been an enslaved person.” Ava DuVernay on Modern Slavery in America 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z He devotes the rest of his book to the seven decades that preceded the decision, tracing the stories of several enslaved families in Maryland’s Prince George’s County through the generations. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Some of these games confront the victims of the Holocaust and enslaved people head on; most don’t, though of course they’re right there if players choose to look. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Such connections were rarely meaningful to the whites involved, and the enslaved likely had no expectations about them. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z His film, based on a novel by Patricia McCormick, was made with the express intention of spotlighting the tragedy of enslaved children and raising funds for them. India and the US: a new wave of collaborative cinema 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z And even after years of research and stacks of books, I’m still amazed at what enslaved and freed Africans accomplished in the world under the harshest of circumstances. “That white men might roll in ease”: I feel like the first real American in my family, which has been here for centuries 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z He's unquestionably an argument for American exceptionalism, in that he seems cooler, more humble, more self-sacrificing and just flat-out nicer than those who sought to enslave the world. "Captain America": A patriotic surprise from the comic-book past 2011-07-21T00:30:00Z Joined by historians who offer context and insight, the hosts begin each episode by spotlighting the life of one enslaved man or woman whose experience speaks to a larger theme. 7 Podcasts For History Buffs 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Colombia, located where Central and South America meet, is home to more than 50 million inhabitants, and its rich cultural heritage reflects influences from Indigenous populations, European colonization, enslaved African people and later immigration. ‘Encanto’ May Be Accurate, but Can It Carry a Whole Country? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z She cautiously nurtures and protects the enslaved people sequestered in the women’s quarters, and when she absolutely must she risks her life and privileges to pay what she sees as a personal debt. Review | Pat Barker’s ‘The Women of Troy’ continues her brilliant reassessment of the Trojan War 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Most strikingly, in 1782 a group of formerly enslaved women threw a formal party for British officers in Charleston, S.C., and danced with the soldiers until nearly 4 in the morning. Assaults and Occupations in Wartime 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z No group is more rigidly controlled than the Handmaids, women of proven fertility who are forced to live as enslaved babymakers in a society in which infertility has decimated the birth rate. Revisiting “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the Opera 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z “This is an institution,” she said, “that enslaved my family for 150 years and then sold them, and then didn’t talk about it for another 180 years.” At 63, she enrolled at the university that sold her enslaved ancestors. Now she’s starring in a play about them. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Wright would survive long enough to see the cause of women pitted against the cause of the formerly enslaved. An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Cocooned within are some of history’s cruelest, most contentious images — the first photographs, it is believed, of enslaved human beings. The First Photos of Enslaved People Raise Many Questions About the Ethics of Viewing 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z After the enslaved people on the farm were freed, many had to stay on as sharecroppers to earn clothes and food. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z An enslaved person who trusted Tubman to help him escape simply noted that Tubman had "de charm," or God's protection. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Estimated number of enslaved people in America at the beginning of the Civil War. African American history, as seen through letters and stamps 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It is in the meticulous ledgers of Mount Vernon that we first see Ona Maria Judge, who was born around 1773 to an enslaved mother and a father who was a white indentured servant. In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger announced to the town of Galveston, Texas, that all enslaved people were to be freed. Juneteenth: An emancipation celebration 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z In “The Piano Lesson,” the disguise is off, as the drama turns on the heirloom instrument of the title, blessed but also haunted by its carvings of a family’s enslaved ancestors. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Blackbeard rules over a dusty hellhole swarming with enslaved children, the kind of place we’ve seen a hundred times before. Review: ‘Pan’ Proposes Peter and Captain Hook’s Origin Stories 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z There is a real power struggle on the trawler — not just between the captain and the enslaved men, but between the workers as well. "Hard to stomach": "Buoyancy" director on the horrors of enslaved labor in the Thai fishing industry 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Born about 1772, enslaved as a child and then set free by a family of German American potters, Mr. Commeraw began designing ceramics in the 1790s, including food storage vessels for oystermen and innkeepers. A Panorama of Design 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z What, after all, was the most important product produced by enslaved labor? Exhibition Review: ‘Homefront and Battlefield’ Looks at Civil War Quilts 2014-05-05T20:59:16Z Another mural features a scene from the Underground Railroad, the route by which enslaved people escaped to freedom. Murals that send a message: For Black History Month, a look at the activist art of Hale Woodruff 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Although he’s the son of an enslaved woman, he proudly bears the last name of the white father who owned him. Hard Times: Novels That Explore Old Conflicts 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z However, he may neither sell nor enslave her “because you have inflicted her.” Bifurcating Realities, Joseph P. Kennedy and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “When we say Hamilton didn’t enslave people, we’re erasing them from the story,” she said. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Fields was enslaved until she was around 30 years old, when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Zazie Beetz and Regina King on Their Big Battle in ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Visions of a young woman enslaved by a vampire draw rescuers to a notorious London theater on “Grand Guignol,” Episode 108 of Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful.” 'Penny Dreadful' recap: Rescuers search for Mina at Grand Guignol 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Both were invented by Garrett Morgan, the son of formerly enslaved Black people. Black scientists have often been overlooked despite their inventions and discoveries 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z He cited Holton’s emphasizing that the vast majority of Americans in the early years, notably women and those enslaved, were unable to vote, when the same was true virtually everywhere in the world. Gordon Wood and Woody Holton clash over past and present 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Many of the cooking traditions and techniques that define Southern food were invented and executed by African-Americans, whether they were cooking for their own families or for white families that enslaved or employed them. Is It Southern Food, or Soul Food? 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The only reason it isn't offensive to straight men is that there aren't any; Big is something else, a shambling, half-dead ghoul enslaved to a demonic harridan. "Sex and the City 2's" incomprehensible badness 2010-05-27T00:20:00Z And American abolitionist photographers posed formerly enslaved people alongside mirrors. 4 Books That Reflect on Faces, Fragments and Torments 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Muhammad Fraser-Rahim, a Howard University graduate student studying Muslim influence in America, says that knowing more about Yarrow’s life could “change the narrative of how we see Islam, how we see enslaved Africans.” What lies beneath: Searching for the bones of Yarrow Mamout, a turn-of-the-19th-century Georgetown celebrity 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Specifically, it pushes readers to think about mermaids as products of the Middle Passage, the harrowing stage of the transatlantic slave trade in which enslaved Africans were transported in crowded ships across the Atlantic Ocean. Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough — look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z In “The Taste of Country Cooking,” Lewis wrote of her childhood in Freetown, a rural settlement in Orange County, Va., founded by formerly enslaved people, Lewis’s grandparents Chester and Lucinda among them. On the menu at the Edna Lewis family reunion: Deviled eggs, peach cobbler and pride 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The sequence shows an enslaved mother and her young daughter making dessert and serving it to their owner’s family, before hiding in a closet to “lick the bowl clean.” ‘A Fine Dessert’: Judging a Book by the Smile of a Slave 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z And the Hamiltons, Ms. Serfilippi contends, appear to have enslaved people up until the time of Hamilton’s death. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z William G. Thomas III’s “A Question of Freedom” recalls the enslaved people who tried to escape bondage by taking to the courts. A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Although Neuville traveled in privileged circles, she produced some of the most accurate and sympathetic portraits of marginalized Native Americans and mixed race and enslaved people from that period. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s part of a $35 million restoration project that will bolster Monticello’s infrastructure but also reconstruct and showcase buildings where enslaved people lived and worked. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z These kinds of juxtapositions — the image of indolent whites served by enslaved blacks — function much like the doubled voice in the novel. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z And then there’s the number of enslaved people she rescued through the Underground Railroad, which was reported as 300 in her 1869 biography, but was more likely around 70. Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z For two and a half centuries America enslaved its black population, whose labor was a critical source of the country’s capitalist modernization and prosperity. Affirmative Action: The Uniquely American Experiment 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “When our own race is enslaving us. If it’s about us owning, it can’t be about us owning each other.” Rapper Mase calls out Diddy over publishing rights just days 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z But Hiram must negotiate his standing with white agents, too — condescending liberals who believe they know what’s best for their enslaved brethren. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z To the enslaved families ripped apart, it’s a death sentence. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Describing the various horrors visited upon the women of America, particularly Indigenous and enslaved ones, Faderman doesn’t flinch. ‘Woman’ Is an Ambitious Attempt to Capture Four Centuries of Being Female 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z White’s enslaved workers, just like their counterparts on other plantations, were seasoning their food with readily available cayenne chilies. How did hot sauce get in so many African Americans’ bags, anyway? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z James Tyrone is an actor who has enslaved himself to the same moneymaking play, living on the road with his wife in second-rate hotels full of dubious company. Even with Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne, 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' fails to connect 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z A young enslaved man with special powers escapes from a Virginia plantation. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z This pill invites reckless behavior and enslaves people to pharmaceutical solutions for health. 'Honestly, it’s a revolution. It's so great taking control' 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Burr also talked about Pride Month, wondering if it was “a little long, don’t you think, for a group of people that were never enslaved.” ‘S.N.L.’ Has a Theory About the Fly That Landed on Mike Pence’s Head 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z She fell on hard financial times after James Madison’s death, the final exhibit in the show notes, and sold some of the enslaved people the family owned, with devastating consequences for those on the block. Dolley Madison and Her Peers Ran Their Own ‘Pussy-Hat’ Brigade 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z For the Juneteenth ceremony she has organized for St. Bernard Parish this year, she also plans to incorporate Louisiana history by placing a wreath on a local marker for unknown enslaved people. Juneteenth is growing. Some Texans worry it’s losing meaning. 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z It is also a reference to the crate in which the enslaved Henry “Box” Brown shipped himself to abolitionists in Philadelphia from Virginia in 1849. An Artist’s Gateway to Freedom and Possibility 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z At the same time, there was an extensive trade network carrying tobacco and cotton — all of which had been grown using the forced labor of enslaved Africans — between the two countries. Is it possible to decolonize the wine industry? 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z He then bought his enslaved wife and sheltered Tubman and her siblings in the cabin, in what is now the federal Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. Archaeologists Solve a Decades-Old Harriet Tubman Mystery 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z At the center of the mural, four enslaved people bend over tobacco plants. Students’ Calls to Remove a Mural Were Answered. Now Comes a Lawsuit. 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Her marriage did not change her status as an enslaved person. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z For Sara, the enslaved woman, the danger is physical and more overt. Dominique Morisseau Asks: ‘What Does Freedom Look Like Now?’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In boomtown Seville, enslaved labor powered the artisanal workshops of goldsmiths, ceramists, carpenters, illustrators — and painters. A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The very idea is to pay homage to, and to honor, the enslaved people who cooked these foods. Why you should be eating biscuit pizza, an endlessly versatile and crowd pleasing food with soul 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z TC Boyle: 'I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.' TC Boyle: 'It's a godless world, without hope' 2012-10-13T23:06:05Z Allen’s masterly novel blends the personal story of the enslaved autistic piano prodigy Thomas Wiggins with the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z This ambitious history looks at the centuries during which tens of thousands of Native Americans were enslaved, and the profound effect the practice had on Indian populations across North America. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z We get too little character development to be invested in the story and barely a glimpse at the horrific plight of enslaved people. 'Freedom' can't overcome forced parallel setup 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Although the Spanish were well versed in the slave trade, during their first rule of Florida from the 16th through mid-18th centuries they promised freedom to any enslaved person who fled the colonies. In Florida, Solemn Shadows of the Early Underground Railroad 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The enslaved did not have "their part of the plantation." Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z His Fagin is a twinkly, eloquent miscreant with benevolent affection for his street urchins, even as he is enslaving them. ‘Oliver!’ returns for another Dickensian holiday romp 2013-12-06T23:22:30Z I just assumed that it was sort of like Vulcans on “Star Trek,” who adopted a fiercely logical mind-set because they’d once been so enslaved by their emotions they’d almost exterminated themselves through war. Future intense 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z I wrote a journal of an enslaved girl. Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The chicken is then cooked in stock with rice — also brought to the island by the Spanish and cultivated by enslaved African and Indigenous workers — along with whatever other ingredients are on hand. Finding Strength in Sofrito in Puerto Rico 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z In 1860, decades after the importation of enslaved peoples had been made illegal in the United States, the ship sailed to Alabama. Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Twitty, an African American food historian and author, will make his haroseth, a dish that symbolizes the mortar Israelites used while they were enslaved by Egyptians, with pecans and molasses. ‘Blackness Deserves a Seat at the Seder’ 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The property also has an exhibit that describes the working farm, and lists the names of the enslaved people who lived there. Descendants of slaves and slave owners discover legacy of Maryland’s Sotterley Plantation 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z But all were included in Jefferson’s sense of himself and his estate, where he was at the apex of a social hierarchy that included the enslaved among his broader sense of family, as “dependents.” Perspective | Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Juneteenth recognizes the day — June 19, 1865 — people enslaved in Galveston learned they were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Juneteenth is growing. Some Texans worry it’s losing meaning. 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z What bothers her is calling anyone a slave — rather than, say, an enslaved person. Playing a ‘Game’ to Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About Race 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z An obelisk installed in 2017 honors Antinous, an enslaved young man who was Roman emperor Hadrian’s lover and has been called a “gay god.” Love and death: The legacy of Congressional Cemetery’s ‘Gay Corner’ 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Jones also read a poem about Sally Hemings, the woman who was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson, the father of six of her children. Poetry in a Time of Protest 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z She doesn’t sound like a teen; her voice carries the remembered pain of a strong woman, an enslaved people. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z Even the way we said “slave” instead of “enslaved.” Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z African American genealogy is especially challenging because many records of African Americans are listed by their first name without a surname or by the name of the enslaved individuals. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z And the children in these offerings are repeatedly depicted as the bratty, tyrannical rulers of their enslaved progenitors. No Kids for Me, Thanks 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Step and its use of the body as a percussive instrument speaks to the Black experience: When their drums were taken away, enslaved people created rhythm with their bodies. How ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Brought Step to the Met 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z “By the church there’s a cross made of chains, which marks the grave of the unknown enslaved person.” Viewing Los Angeles Through a Creole Lens 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Nine months after Velázquez painted his enslaved assistant, he freed him. A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z There were enslaved persons who worked on the White House. Have deep, probing questions about the White House? Here is your source. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z I also plan on following the examples laid down in the Good Book and helping myself to the sexual favors of our domestic help, which I will not, however, enslave, as Leviticus 25:44-46 allows. Put away your Bible, Justice: The new “religious freedom” arguments are neither 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z That Hamilton helped legal clients and family members, including his sister-in-law Angelica Schuyler Church, buy and sell enslaved people, has been noted by biographers. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z For centuries, enslaved Africans and their descendants were referred to as “colored” in the eyes of the law as well as in common parlance. Why hundreds of American newsrooms have started capitalizing the ‘b’ in ‘Black’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Gideon, the young slave owner and childhood companion of Tubman, for example, was a fiction, a stand-in for hundreds of men and women who grew up alongside the people enslaved by their parents. Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Like the bodies of the handmaids, those of enslaved black women become a tableau that reflects social ills. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 1, Episode 3: Gender Treachery 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z We dipped pieces in a fruity game sauce from Abby Fisher, a formerly enslaved cook who moved from South Carolina to San Francisco and started a thriving pickle business. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z She was speaking on behalf of the world’s enslaved minks. Fur is under attack. It’s not going down without a fight. 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z On the eve of the Civil War the monetary value “of enslaved people exceeded that of all the railroads and factories in the nation.” A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z When someone talks about a Black farmer, as enslaved people, we didn't own the farm but we worked on the farm forever. Chef Marcus Samuelsson: "Look out for the Black-owned restaurants … because we need you right now" 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Cora realizes that this is what it looks like when the prodigious work of enslaved people isn’t stolen from them, “bled from them.” How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z And the Obamas were making history every day, as the first Black occupants of a house built with the labor of enslaved people. Mr. Smith Went to Washington … With Dimmers 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The forced migration of enslaved Africans to North America and their interactions with European colonists led to a convergence of customs. Tracing the Origins of a Black American New Year’s Ritual 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The Emancipation Proclamation and the treating of slaves as military contraband were never ends for Lincoln, but simply means to be used to pressure the states to free their enslaved populations on their own. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z “This is my family’s history,” said Morris, a genealogy hobbyist from Richmond, who is working on a book about her family going back to the early 1800s, when her ancestors were enslaved. She found her father’s segregated schoolhouse decaying in the Va. woods. Now, it is on the way to being saved. 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Some of the material held by institutions was created or collected with the permission of the enslaved, but most was not. Your Ancestors Were Slaves. Who Owns the Photos of Them? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z In one famous depiction, she's seen mourning President Abraham Lincoln, joined by Britannia, another female character who personifies England, and a formerly enslaved person whose plight remains unclear. How did Uncle Sam become a symbol for the United States? 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z “Many people were granting half-freedom. If enslaved people walked away, they didn’t go after them.” Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Recall, first, that in many states it was illegal for an enslaved person even to learn how to read and how to write. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z It was through these two women that I was able to collect voices of enslaved people, which are much harder to find in historical societies. Keris Salmon’s haunting canvases pair plantation photos and slave diaries 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z It is wrong to enslave and force animals to perform for or entertainment. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Okpebholo and Jaji drew their subject matter from “Freedom on the Move,” a database containing thousands of ads placed by slave owners in newspapers to track down enslaved people who had escaped their captors. Review: Songs That Defy the ‘Quotidian Nature of Evil’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z That finale ends with its formerly enslaved family standing atop the hills of Lauderdale County, Tenn., as though it were the beginning of “The Sound of Music.” The Reconciliation Must Be Televised 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z “Underground,” which debuts tonight, takes place in plantation-era Georgia, and most of the characters are enslaved. The N-word, in terrible context: Period pieces “Hap and Leonard” and “Underground” expose the long roots of racism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Written by William N. Collage, “Emancipation” was inspired by a famous, widely circulated photograph of a horrifically scarred former enslaved man. ‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith in a Brutal Journey 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z They’re exploited by capricious bosses and enslaved by felonious employers, but there simply aren’t enough jobs to go around — or even enough organs to sell off. ‘The Year of the Runaways’ review: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ for the 21st century 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The book, a fantasy tale called “Blood Heir,” depicts an empire that enslaves magical minorities, known as Affinites, and where “oppression is blind to skin color,” as the promotional material phrased it. In Y.A., Where Is the Line Between Criticism and Cancel Culture? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Yoruba who had been enslaved by the Portuguese and brought to Brazil to harvest sugar and to mine gold adapted traditional rituals, including the worship of ancestral spirits, called Egun. Pacific Standard Time exhibition at the Fowler traces the power of sacred plants in Brazil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z And so he does, capturing the monstrous, enslaving fears as well as the rare moments of freedom that keep him searching for a more lasting peace. ‘My Age of Anxiety’: living with debilitating dread 2014-01-16T21:33:36Z Stacie Marshall, who has inherited a farm in the northwest corner of Georgia, learned that her ancestors kept enslaved people. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z You could see where the enslaved came up. Poet Nikki Giovanni shares her wisdom about Biden, cowardly racism, and why love is a pineapple 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s not quite 15 inches tall, but this jar points to the artistic achievements of enslaved African Americans and the persistent erasure of their work from America’s cultural institutions for nearly 300 years. The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z In any given year, Jefferson enslaved up to 200 people, with roughly half under the age of 16. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z He’s a sixth-generation Georgian, whose enslaved ancestors worked the southern Georgia soil. A Black Republican tries to bring in Black voters to the GOP 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z One of the first chocolatiers in the Colonies was an enslaved cook named Caesar. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Associated Press photographer Maya Alleruzzo took second place in the category with a story about the Islamic State group enslaving Yazidi women in Iraq. Coronavirus hug image named World Press Photo of the Year 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Trade magazines for planters carried management tips on getting the most out of enslaved workers: the best diet, clothing and even the proper tone of voice to use when giving orders. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z He spent four years enslaved on an outlaw fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean. Cartoonists Who Draw in Order to Be Heard 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z I learn that under British rule, enslaved people were treated worse than any other group of enslaved people in history. On a New York Underground Railroad Tour, Lessons in Resistance 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The story of enslaved Black people rising up and flying home to Africa is a hallmark of African American folklore. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The voices of the enslaved are more audible at Joseph Lloyd Manor, a white-shingled house on a steep slope overlooking Lloyd Harbor, in the North Shore town of Huntington. Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The vividness of Whitehead’s book, and its propulsive sense of thrill and adventure, spring directly from this literalization—from the fearsome puffing trains that carry Cora, the novel’s enslaved protagonist, toward freedom. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Next, say hello to a giant bronze likeness of Frederick Douglass, who as an enslaved young man worked in the shipyard at Fells Point docks. For a better sense of Baltimore, get out of the Inner Harbor and head to Fells Point 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Under French colonial rule in the 17th and 18th centuries, enslaved Africans in Haiti were forced to cultivate squash, which grew abundantly on the fertile land. With a Fortifying Soup, Haitians Share Their Pride in Independence 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Signs are enslaved, chased by police tracker dogs, standing dazed before monkey gods, or sick, dying of Aids. Keith Haring, the Political Line – review 2013-05-14T13:01:35Z Now, guests hear details of the vast disparities between those who lived in the main house and the enslaved women, men and children who worked there. For Black tour guides in Savannah, the historical is personal 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z The project's goal was to invite a reconsideration of the United States' legacy of slavery on the 400th anniversary of the first time enslaved Africans set foot on Virginian soil. "Justice requires repair": Nikole Hannah-Jones on why Hulu's "1619 Project" is essential viewing 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z "To save money, Jefferson employed French chefs to train several enslaved members of the Monticello community in the delicate art of French cookery." "Freedom fries" and "native victuals": Why American politicians are so weird about French food 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Attempting to emphasize that humanity, other scholars substituted "enslavement" for "slavery," "enslaver" for "slave owner," and "enslaved person" for "slave." "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z They put heads on spikes and lined the rivers to keep enslaved people in complete terror. Alice Walker and Colm Toibin, and Their Trail of Words 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Hers is the national soul-searching writ small: Should the descendants of people who kept others enslaved be held responsible for that wrong? Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z A pivotal professional moment was securing the role of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the real-life woman born in 1761 to an enslaved African mother and a white father in the British Navy. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, the up-and-coming actress who’s always on the move 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Behind the busts hang manacles along with other artifacts of the enslaved — referring, perhaps, to the fact that Washington held slaves. Museum Review: ?Revolution!? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-11-10T23:07:33Z Now part of the facade of the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, the letters mark the onetime site of the St. Louis Hotel & Exchange, where, under the building’s famed rotunda, enslaved people were once sold. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The vestiges of these histories, now mostly disappeared, subsist in dilapidated British colonial buildings and houses with Cuban-Brazilian type architecture built by formerly enslaved people who returned to Nigeria in the late 19th century. A Landscape of Organized Chaos: Nigerian Photographers at MoMA 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z It turns out we have all had a thoroughgoing training, without realising it, in the emancipation of the enslaved, the owned, the abused, and the "speechless". It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z Jeffers gives herself all the room she needs to knit relationships of these enslaved families. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Because it isn’t explicitly about the people of color who were enslaved back in the day. No ‘Hamilton’ tickets? This behind-the-scenes book may ease the fear of missing out 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Rosalyn McPherson, the site’s project manager, emphasized in an interview that the goal was to give voice to the enslaved. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z But what happens when that cause, which promises freedom, tries to enslave them or their children? 'The Americans' Recap: Season 2 Ends With an Answer (Jared) and a Question (Paige) 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Like Judi Dench, she defies time and knows how to weight every syllable to communicate meaning: when she cries "Give me my Romeo" it is with the intensity of a woman enslaved by love. Juliet and Her Romeo | Theatre review 2010-03-17T22:20:00Z They buttress his main point: that the underground railroad, instrument and symbol of enslaved African Americans' determination to achieve freedom, was a major factor in the sectional polarization that led to the Civil War. 'Gateway to Freedom' reveals underground railroad history 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Not long ago, I read that some enslaved Black people who managed to escape plantation life headed into the treacherous swamps of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida instead of fleeing north on the Underground Railroad. Encounters With Ghosts on Georgia’s Golden Isles 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Soon, they carry the survivors away to be enslaved. Teenage Heroes in a Mythical Land Fight Monsters, and Stereotypes 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z In the antebellum era, enslaved Africans often gathered there to play music and dance, using whatever instruments they had — bamboula drums, horns, bells, banjos — and carrying their cultural traditions forward. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Hastie, who is white, is also the president and chief executive officer of Historic Charleston Foundation, which works to preserve structures, many built by enslaved people. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z This anthology highlights the overlooked role that enslaved people played in emancipation. New & Noteworthy, From Black Emancipators to Love and Desire 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z A new generation of social historians analyzed the concerns of marginalized groups — workers, women, free and enslaved African-Americans, and Native Americans, among others. Joyce Appleby, Historian of Capitalism and American Identity, Is Dead at 87 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Legally still enslaved, Tubman risked capture by joining the Union’s front lines to defeat Confederate rebels and win slavery’s abolition. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z On the Georgia coast, Maurice Bailey is making sugar cane syrup as a way to preserve a tradition, and the community, of his enslaved ancestors. Reviving a Crop and an African-American Culture, Stalk by Stalk 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z An interactive panel explores the perspectives of 10 individuals: men and women, free and enslaved, enthusiastic and ambivalent. A New Museum of the American Revolution, Warts and All 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Joseph Lee, an entrepreneur in the Boston area and the son of enslaved people, invented the first commercial bread machine in the late 1880s, largely for use in the hospitality industry. Inflation Leads a New Generation to the Bread-Making Machine 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Work in the attic also revealed a chimney venting system for smoking meat, a culinary technique enslaved people practiced. A House Museum Has a New Message: New York Had Slavery, Too 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Bisset's new film, Welcome to New York, makes much of the notion of universal primal weakness, that women and men are equally enslaved by their hormones. Jacqueline Bisset: 'Older women continue to want sex but men don't want to sleep with them' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Tituba was the enslaved black woman who was the first person accused of practicing witchcraft in the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Tayari Jones: In Praise of Ann Petry 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z King Harren the Black wanted to have the highest hall and the tallest towers in all of Westeros, and his obsession resulted in the deaths of thousands of enslaved workers. ‘House of the Dragon’: Is Larys Strong the New Littlefinger? 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The central character is a young woman named Cora, enslaved on a Georgia cotton plantation owned by Mr. Randall, a wealthy twin with a gruesome turn of mind. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The book is anchored by a disturbing novella set on a South Carolina plantation in the 1950s, its land made toxic through the exploitation of enslaved people’s labor. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Gritty and realistic sculptures without a trace of idealization — of enslaved Africans, and the women who were at the forefront of the bus boycott — are placed throughout the memorial grounds. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Born on the island of Guadeloupe, Joseph Bologne was the son of an enslaved Senegalese woman and a French plantation owner. ‘Chevalier’ Review: A Black Virtuoso Rocks the Court of Marie Antoinette 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “The Foot Warmer and the Crow,” according to Publishers Weekly, is a tale of an enslaved man counseled by a clever crow on how to escape his master. Review: At Northwest African American Museum, works you’ll want to touch — but don’t 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Some protested the racial caste system by escaping from their presidential masters, as Washington’s renowned and enslaved cook Hercules did in 1797. In the White House kitchen, hiding in plain sight Even before then, merchants in the Massachusetts Bay Colony had enslaved Native Americans, and by 1638 were bartering them for Africans in the West Indies. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z He kept a running tally of the hogs killed in a given year, mused about crop rotations, and noted the diet of the enslaved people there. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z White portrait busts of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, altered with nails and soil, remind us that Jefferson owned and employed slaves in his blacksmith shop, while Washington’s enslaved labor tilled his tobacco plantation. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z There are challenges to Friedman’s account: Who exactly were the Levites while still enslaved in Egypt, and how did their story become central to the larger community of Israel? Two Authors Examine Biblical History for Clues About Faith 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Unlike many other contemporary representations of enslaved people in television and film, Dana is not by herself. ‘Kindred’ Creator Wants Viewers to ‘Question Their Assumptions’ 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z For the enslaved people in Fredericksburg, Va., on Good Friday morning in 1862, that sound meant freedom. In (and around) Fredericksburg, Va., walking the steps of a slave’s Trail to Freedom 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z But it meant a great deal to the six Hemings-Wayles children, who had very different lives and destinies than others enslaved at Monticello. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z But whether Hamilton enslaved people in his own household is a murkier question. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Originally brought to North America by enslaved West Africans, the peanut was thought to be all but extinct. Hatched From Peanuts, the South’s Hot New Oil 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z While initially enslaved with his mother and sister, Carver was separated from his family after he was kidnapped in a slave raid. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The debate over how the university could make amends continues; just last month, the Jesuits and descendants of the enslaved announced the creation of a Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Foundation. At 63, she enrolled at the university that sold her enslaved ancestors. Now she’s starring in a play about them. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Fifteen images tucked away at Harvard, widely believed to be the first photographs of enslaved human beings, have been at the center of urgent debates about photography ever since they were rediscovered in 1976. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The last Queens enslaved in Maryland were held by the Ducketts, a branch of his family. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Some of Jefferson’s belongings, like his glasses and pen holder from Monticello, stand alongside a display of shackles, with a note saying that Jefferson enslaved his own children with Sally Hemings. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Evolvable matter will not enslave us because we set the fitness function. Lee Cronin: 'Aliens could be made from iron' 2011-08-27T23:06:02Z A display about slavery in various areas of America oddly puts a year on the first conception of race: “Africans were ultimately defined as ‘enslaved for life,’ and the concept of whiteness began to develop.” The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z But the difference in how they sort of executed things was, we always see the victimization of enslaved Americans back in that time. John Legend and Aldis Hodge Discuss ‘Underground’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Facing off against Egyptian pharaoh Ramses, played by Joel Edgerton, Bale will depict the leader of the enslaved Israelites searching for their release from Egyptian oppression. Christian Bale to Play Moses 2013-08-14T18:24:07Z But this is a dilemma for another time, because humanity has yet to be enslaved by computers. Commission us: the most homely fictional worlds 2010-10-12T11:22:00Z She took the same approach with the cooking traditions that enslaved Africans had carried with them to Southern shores. Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor Dies at 79; Celebrated Gullah Food and Culture on NPR 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z In his account, which an increasing number of contemporary historians have accepted, enslaved African-Americans were not given their freedom but took it. How “Westworld” Failed the Western 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z One tableau depicts some of the thousands of enslaved people who fought for the British. A New Museum of the American Revolution, Warts and All 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z And with nearly 40 years of scholarship since the original, there was new information about the atrocities of the era, the societies of western Africa and the daily life of the enslaved. ‘Roots,’ Remade for a New Era 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved,” the story of a formerly enslaved woman’s confrontation with the infant she killed, moved a generation to reckon with slavery’s intimate violence and its enduring legacy. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Her father was Black, the grandson of an enslaved man from Texas. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z But photographs of enslaved people may not be quite as rare as previously thought. Your Ancestors Were Slaves. Who Owns the Photos of Them? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The novel examines the lives of a group of enslaved people living on a plantation in 1852. In ‘Yonder,’ Escape From Slavery Comes With a Magical Twist 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Historical records in Virginia show that there were once two large plantations in the area that enslaved people, North Wales and Meadow Farm. She found her father’s segregated schoolhouse decaying in the Va. woods. Now, it is on the way to being saved. 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Completed in 1876, the piece depicts Lincoln standing over a kneeling and formerly enslaved man and seemingly bestowing his freedom upon him; a copy of the work remains on view in Washington, D.C. Artwork Inspired by an Abraham Lincoln Moment Is Reimagined 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Rather than canvases, Johnson works with leather that he soaks in indigo or coffee — products of the same trans-Atlantic trade that dealt in enslaved people. From the Border, the Whitney Biennial Asks What American Art Can Be 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Consider this plotline: an indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them. The Carpetbagger: Fighting on Many Fronts in Foreign-Language Entries 2012-01-04T15:00:57Z The new project would focus on the realm of the Genies and reveal how Aladdin’s Genie ended up enslaved in the lamp. 'Aladdin' Live-Action Prequel in the Works at Disney 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Historically, it was the enslaved that did the hard, unpaid work when it came to barbecue events. A brief history of the American cookout 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Last year she mobilized a squad of volunteers to paint a bold Black Lives Matter mural she’d designed around the downtown Court Square Fountain, where enslaved people were bought, sold and traded. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The video lasts 16 minutes and 19 seconds, a “nod” to 1619, when enslaved Africans were first brought to American shores. How a Smithsonian Museum Stopped Being About the ‘Wealthy, Pale and Male’ 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Seville had an enslaved population — mostly of North African and sub-Saharan African origin, but also Jews and other minorities — of 10 percent or more, as well as a large community of free people of color. A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Dance and devotion have met frequently in Wilson’s works over the decades, from the ring shouts practiced by enslaved Africans to the dancing of Spiritual Baptists in Trinidad and Tabago. 12 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Parker appallingly shifts the scenes around to the male view of the action, and never shows women in discussion among themselves, never presents how enslaved women endure and confront their own oppression. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z These losses are more pronounced for the U.S. branch of the family, where enslaved children are sold away from their parents. The blazing success of Yaa Gyasi's 'Homegoing,' a panoramic portrait of the slave trade's legacy 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The finale invites us to watch as he does that, and even root for it; after all, disliking walt does not have to mean wanting his family destitute or Jesse enslaved. Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad Postmortems: How Walt “Won” Yet Lost His Soul 2013-10-01T17:37:55Z This law freed any enslaved person who stayed on Pennsylvania soil for longer than six continuous months. The man who fed the first president — and hungered for freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Fred Minnick, the author of “Bourbon Curious: A Simple Tasting Guide for the Savvy Drinker,” said it’s doubtful that a full accounting of enslaved people’s contribution to American whiskey will ever be written. Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Walker, the daughter of enslaved parents who became a hair-care magnate and a self-made millionaire. Pyer Moss wows with couture show honoring Black inventors 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z In Japanese prison camps, she writes, "to abuse, enslave, and even murder a captive or POW was considered acceptable, even desirable." Marketing 'Unbroken' will be delicate in key Japanese, Chinese markets 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z The country was named Liberia by its founders, formerly enslaved Africans from the United States who returned to the continent in the early 19th century. Marking a Different Thanksgiving Tradition, From West Africa 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z The creators hired historians as advisers, like Stephanie Smallwood, an assistant professor at the University of Washington and an expert on the Middle Passage, the treacherous, monthslong journey of the enslaved across the Atlantic. ‘Roots,’ Remade for a New Era 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Mémorial ACTe is a museum complex dedicated to the memory of enslaved peoples around the world. A Return to Guadeloupe: Tropical Life, French-Style 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z But Ghana, in West Africa, stands out, most recently for its Year of Return tourism campaign, which marked the 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia. Perspective | Congress’s kente cloth spectacle was a mess of contradictions 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z One recounted a story about his grandfather manumitting enslaved people. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z It is set in the mythical land of Dragor, where the dragons are forced to hide from the humans who once enslaved them. Yoshiko and the Gift of Charms - review 2012-06-30T14:00:00Z There are pictures of enslaved people on plantations, but also well-off black families in tender poses, proud black Union soldiers, escaped slaves aboard a Union warship, Emancipation Day celebrations and reunions of former slaves. ‘Envisioning Emancipation’: Book Documents Slavery’s End 2012-12-21T22:48:45Z Having shown a world enslaved to the tyranny of self, Crimp suggests that even the Dante-esque dream of harmony and light is one more of our illusions. In the Republic of Happiness – review 2012-12-13T18:15:55Z Indian Removal Act forced Cherokee and other Indians to relinquish their native land and move west, countless blacks enslaved by Cherokees crossed into the frontier bound and shackled. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z The eponymous Frannie, born on a Jamaica sugar plantation and raised by another enslaved woman, is eventually taught to read and write by her mistress, Miss-bella. Review | Sara Collins’s ‘The Confessions of Frannie Langton’ is a startling debut 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The action takes place in the eighteen-eighties, set in the historical context of the colonization of the Congo and the efforts of King Leopold of Belgium to subjugate and enslave its population. Tarzan Cannot Be Rebooted 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z And he has a master plan to free — read: enslave — Bruce’s city, employing the ability to cloud men’s minds by lightly touching their heads and, even more effective, a four-megaton nuclear device. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z A room focused on the election of 1800 features silhouettes of those excluded from voting in early America, including women, enslaved African-Americans, Native Americans and poor whites. A New Kind of ‘Hamilton’ Show, This Time on Lake Michigan 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Her mission is to liberate the enslaved “wives” of the arch-villain, and she receives crucial assistance from a band of gray-haired motorcycle matriarchs. Heroines Triumph at Box Office, but Has Anything Changed in Hollywood? 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z It’s an august instrument with a knotty history, linking the Charles family to their enslaved ancestors and the white family that owned them. ‘The Piano Lesson’ Review: August Wilson’s Phantom Notes 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Moving from the lives of his enslaved parents to the posthumous success of his art, she demonstrates how Traylor’s elegant images distill not only form but also the realities of black life in the South. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It dwells less on the physical violence of chattel slavery in the United States and focuses instead on how enslaved people reclaimed their rights to leisure and asserted ownership of their thoughts and feelings. Review | ‘The Prophets’ reimagines the lives of enslaved people with the epic love story of two men 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z A historian traces the ownership history of a sack embroidered by an enslaved woman. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z It was the culmination of a months-long restoration project Burchard undertook to earn Eagle Scout status — and it was timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of enslaved Africans’ arrival in Virginia. A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “In memory and recognition of the courage, pain and suffering of enslaved African people,” read the plaque on the stone. The very personal mission of the founder of the first diving club for African Americans 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z The artist painted the high school’s entryway with a mural that depicted the first president alongside Indigenous people and enslaved African Americans. San Francisco School Board Reverses Vote on Mural Removal 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Where servants worked, “it would have been not typical to ornament the spaces,” Plavskina said, which suggests that enslaved Africans might have created the details. A House Museum Has a New Message: New York Had Slavery, Too 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z But it is remarkable that as a former enslaved person, for whom there was no guide, Mary thrived. Comics That Dismantle the White Cowboy Myth 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z This novel centers on two enslaved boys and their blossoming romance, which begets betrayal and suffering on an antebellum plantation in Mississippi. New in Paperback: ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Davis looks at five people who were enslaved by presidents before and after the American Revolution as a corrective to history books that hide or play down slavery’s role in the United States. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z There are hierarchies as well among the enslaved workers, which creates friction under those condition and in that environment. "Hard to stomach": "Buoyancy" director on the horrors of enslaved labor in the Thai fishing industry 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z "Every single day, calibrated pain, regular as a turning gear, challenged enslaved people to exceed the previous day's gains in production," Baptist writes. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Taylor’s extended family shared a last name with the sheriff because his ancestors enslaved hers. The Rape of Recy Taylor: behind one of the year's most vital documentaries 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z "It's not just because we were enslaved and told to cook," he says. Why you should be eating biscuit pizza, an endlessly versatile and crowd pleasing food with soul 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z She learned about it from her grandfather, whose ancestors were enslaved there. Southern Barbecue With a Fiery Dip and a Deep History 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z They’re an alien race, it turns out, in the process of enslaving the Earth, mainly through the use of television, and exploiting its inhabitants until nothing remains. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Dana has to make some hard choices for herself and often risks the lives of other enslaved African Americans to ensure that she continues to exist in the present. ‘Kindred’ Creator Wants Viewers to ‘Question Their Assumptions’ 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Businesses that collaborated with the Nazis included Kodak, which used enslaved laborers in Germany. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z The same system that enslaved African people is the very same system that enslaves animals in zoos and circuses. Philadelphia's deadly MOVE bombing: Why we can't settle for apologies now 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z During slavery, for example, physicians performed widespread experimentation on enslaved people — including brain surgery and amputations on people while they were still alive. Perspective | A medical school class thought the Hippocratic oath fell flat. So they wrote their own script. 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Clay Risen helped to establish that enslaved Blacks did play a role in whiskey making in pre-Civil War America. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z As a child, Lucy Terry was stolen from Africa and enslaved in Deerfield, Massachusetts, the marker states. Vermont marker recognizes early African American poet 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z “This is the last place enslaved Africans ever saw in Ghana,” he said. Jacqueline Woodson on Africa, America and Slavery’s Fierce Undertow 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “Not only did Alexander Hamilton enslave people, but his involvement in the institution of slavery was essential to his identity, both personally and professionally,” she writes. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Computers "Jeopardy" confirms our darkest technology fears It's all fun and games until the human race is enslaved by our robot overlords. "Jeopardy" confirms our darkest technology fears 2011-02-15T16:29:00Z A law professor at Vanderbilt University, Dayan looks at how the past haunts the law, imprisoning and enslaving specific groups of people and — legally — depriving them of their personhood. How Michaela Coel Shaped ‘I May Destroy You’ 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z “This is going back 200 years, but some in early stages of our history were enslaved,” McBride said. Concern rises for White House residence staffers as their workplace emerges as a virus hot spot 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z The only Black person featured in the entire painting is York, a Black man who was enslaved by William Clark. Black Artists Find Ways to Make Their Voices Heard in Portland 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Who owns African-American history: the generally white-dominated institutions that house many of its traces, or the descendants of the enslaved? Your Ancestors Were Slaves. Who Owns the Photos of Them? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z “There’s something always haunted on the faces of the enslaved children, and the white children seem completely oblivious to the pain in their eyes,” Lemmons said. We all know Harriet Tubman was a hero. The stars of ‘Harriet’ want you to see her humanity. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The same reporter who wrote about Hamilton’s tryst, James Thomson Callender, also wrote about Thomas Jefferson’s affair with an enslaved woman, Sally Hemings, but Jefferson, already president when the story broke, was re-elected anyway. When a Collision Between Politics and Sex Shocked Americans 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Her novel — and its dramatic adaptations — turned the “hard and dominant Anglo-Saxon race” toward Christian salvation with a simple lesson: to stop enslaving quintessential Christians in all their “lowly docility of heart.” A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Initially modeled in plaster and later cast in bronze, “The Freedman” portrays a formerly enslaved man clad in a loincloth, his left arm in manacles, his right breaking free from the chains of bondage. Artwork Inspired by an Abraham Lincoln Moment Is Reimagined 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z She found handwritten letters from her enslaved ancestor: ‘I’m just blown away’ He died alone in his apartment. Then his artwork went viral. 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z “Plantations are physical reminders of one of the most horrific human rights abuses the world has ever seen, which, over the course of the Atlantic Slave Trade, enslaved 10.7 million Black people in the Americas.” Plantation where Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively married responds after actor expressed regret 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z According to Horwitz’s book, an objector at a City Council meeting pointed out, “The other guys on that Avenue would have enslaved him if they could.” For Richmond, a Compelling New Chapter 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z There were even instances when real human teeth were used, possibly sourced from enslaved people at Mount Vernon. From George Washington's teeth to Taft's bathtub drama: 6 presidential myths, debunked 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Enslaved and formerly enslaved people like Ivy are at the center of this sprawling story. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Because Thomas Jefferson's enslaved person invented macaroni and cheese. "Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z A new name was a rebirth that raised Tubman up from slavery’s social death, even before she escaped and then valiantly rescued enslaved people, scouted for the Union Army and eventually campaigned for women’s votes. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z But curator Nancy Bercaw was searching for something that would remind visitors of the humanity of those who were enslaved. A humble skirt worn by an enslaved child finds a place in history 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z She escaped to free soil in Pennsylvania more than a century and a half ago, only returning to the Eastern Shore for the rescues of enslaved people. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Some may reject the anthem because Francis Scott Key sang for freedom while enslaving blacks. Screw the national anthem 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z “Slave to the Rhythm,” about a woman enslaved by marriage and job, trades the demo’s mechanical beat for a jittery double-time barrage that ricochets against the vocal and makes Jackson’s percussive angst even more dramatic. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z For formerly enslaved Black people, who were previously prohibited by law from reading and writing, literacy was crucial to freedom. Welcome to Homecoming! 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Merging the sacred and the profane, the bloody and the batty, “Love Exposure” tunnels into serious topics — warped parenting, sexual intolerance and the way religious cults enslave damaged souls — with a hilariously blasphemous shovel. | 'Love Exposure': ?Love Exposure,? Directed by Sion Sono ? Review 2011-09-02T04:33:03Z It records the sale of 83 enslaved Americans, their names and their descriptions to bring humanity to the horrors of slavery, said curator Bill Yeingst, who directed the "American Stories" project. Smithsonian opens new, diverse US history timeline 2012-04-11T20:24:37Z She laughed in the face of death, blazed past anyone who tried to say her bomb-laced spine would keep her enslaved, and dispensed stellar advice. 10 Characters Who Could Run Things in Westworld's Season 2 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z In “Grace,” an enslaved woman on the run is shot by bounty hunters but hovers on earth. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Other objects within the museum’s collection include work by the Malian photographer Seydou Keïta and pottery by the enslaved artist David Drake. International African American Museum Sets Opening for June After Sudden Delay 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The actress is making her feature film debut in the prestige picture — and winning raves for her moving performance as the enslaved woman Patsey. First Time’s a Charm: 7 Actors and Their Remarkable Big-Screen Debuts 2013-10-22T09:45:59Z One way that younger generations are “squaring the circle of eating alone, enjoying food but not being enslaved to the kitchen is through the rise of meal prepping”, she says. Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z “Roots” dispatched legions of racist ideas of backward Africa, of civilizing slavery, of the contented slave, of loose enslaved women. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Hearsay, for example, was admissible in Maryland courts, providing a way for enslaved plaintiffs to offer evidence of their ancestry when a paper trail didn’t exist. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Harding reimagines that history, transforming it into the fictional Apple Island, where the descendants of a formerly enslaved man, Benjamin Honey, and his Irish wife, Patience, have settled since the late 1700s. In ‘This Other Eden,’ a Historical Tale of Paradise Lost 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “All of the original built environment in New York basically was built with the labor of enslaved people,” said Louise Mirrer, the head of the New York Historical Society. 'Built by my family': America's grand buildings constructed by slaves 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z It celebrates the importance of Gullah culture, which enslaved West Africans brought to the Lowcountry, but also demonstrates how life was led in slave dwellings that date to 1850, several of which are being preserved. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z She never imagined she’d be able to find out about her enslaved great-great-great-grandfather, and actually read his own words, in his own tidy handwriting that had been preserved for 155 years. She found handwritten letters from her enslaved ancestor: ‘I’m just blown away’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, Johns Hopkins University released new research revealing that there were enslaved people in its founding benefactor’s household as late as 1850. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Inside, the creaky old floors of the commandant’s quarters lead to a hushed historical realm filled with images and documents of enslaved Native children who were stripped of their birth names and cultural identities. A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z On June 19, 1865, news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after Abraham Lincoln had signed the document. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Hodges, the landmark ruling recognizing a constitutional right to marry for same-sex couples, Roberts wrote a dissent comparing it to the infamous Dred Scott decision, which rejected an enslaved man’s suit for freedom. The ‘Enigma’ Who Is the Chief Justice of the United States 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z As one of the Colony's earliest chocolatiers, his status as an enslaved African American puts his story on the map of American culinary history. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z The 1619 Project marked the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans being brought to what became the United States. ‘1619 Project’ writer to join UNC journalism school faculty 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z As on other Fiji plantations, workers were subject to numerous atrocities and treated in ways similar to how enslaved and indentured people were treated on plantations globally. Uncovering the violent history of the Canadian sugar industry 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z “Anyone who was enslaved knew they were enslaved, and if they could have run away, they would have. It’s an insult.” Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Worked by indentured and enslaved Africans and American Indians until 1827, the manor shipped cheeses, hams and candles to New London, Conn., and Rhode Island ports as early as the 1740s. Volunteers Take to New York-Area Farms 2010-05-27T21:22:00Z Among the enslaved brought to North America from West African nations, red is also a color associated with strength, spirit, and sacrifice. How (not) to do Juneteenth 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Many said it was tone deaf for two white men to be at the forefront of a show about enslaving black people. 'Game of Thrones' Creators Defend New HBO Show About Slavery 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Fat people are helpless babies enslaved by their most capricious cravings. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z So the midwife on the plantation, who is bringing forth the labor force, is so valuable to George Washington that he pays her, even though she remains enslaved. "Aftershock" directors on how the anti-midwife campaign wrought the Black maternal mortality crisis 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The book contains a note at the end explaining that Hercules and Delia were real people, and that Hercules eventually escaped while Delia remained enslaved her whole life. Children's book 'A Birthday Cake for George Washington' pulled over depiction of happy slaves 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The ancient Egyptian pharaoh who enslaved the Jews was indisputably a villain, but you wouldn’t call him a shlemiel, the Yiddish term for an awkward bungler. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z In ancient Athens, Mr. Kolman noted, only 10 percent of the people actually had the right to vote — women, nonnative Athenians and enslaved people were excluded. At This Museum Sixth Graders Learn Lessons in Democracy 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z I don’t think enslaved Africans would have been able to get through slavery, or survive in America after it ended, without the black church. Coming around on Martin Luther King Jr.: My Grandma, the Black church and me 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z She married an enslaved man, which meant — according to the Maryland legislature at the time — that she became enslaved, too. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Researchers can look to recorded interviews with formerly enslaved people, Salazar said, and to music, such as the lyrics in old jazz songs. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Some enslaved people resisted subjugation when naming their children; some changed their names, hoping to elude greedy owners and brutal slave catchers. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Is this a metaphor for an enslaved woman’s urge to liberation? Wenders' Pina: Dance Crazy 2011-12-29T09:58:22Z More than 40 people were enslaved at the Schuyler family’s Albany mansion and another estate over the years. Research sheds light on Alexander Hamilton as slave owner 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Virtually nothing, as it did not transform American slavery or change the lives of others enslaved on Jefferson’s plantations. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The school was built on a former plantation, where enslaved people worked the land, and, more than 140 years later, the university has educated tens of thousands of mostly African American students. What a $50 Million Donation Did for One H.B.C.U. 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z There is no false teenager slang, no tortured Southern accents or crude approximations of the words of the enslaved. How Two Black Women a Century Apart Experience Racism 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z “Forty acres and a mule” was the promise to formerly enslaved people during the First Reconstruction, recognizing that their success would require an economic base. It’s not enough to disavow the Klan: Racists and Republicans have years of experience disavowing Klan, but supporting racist politics 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The tradition can be traced all the way back to Mary Todd Lincoln, who wore gowns designed by a formerly enslaved designer, Elizabeth Keckley. Queen Elizabeth, fashion icon? Yes. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z During the Civil War, thousands of formerly enslaved men joined the fight against Confederate forces. 12 New Books Coming in February 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z But these two, playing enslaved men caught up in Brown’s fervid warmongering, manage something special: neither of them wilts. Best Performances of 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z At one time, these one-room homes were joined by others on each side of the road, creating corridors of the enslaved, ushering guests to the master’s domain. Critic?s Notebook: Emancipating History 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z The paradoxes that existed for both the slavers and the enslaved are skillfully examined. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Debut Novel Mingles History and Fantasy 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Kirkham carried his own petition to the provincial capital of San Antonio de Béxar for the return of three enslaved people who had escaped from his plantation the year before. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z But the message of “The Routes of Slavery” is that, in the face of the colonizers’ inhumanity, those who were enslaved refused to let their identities be erased. ‘The Routes of Slavery’ traces a musical journey of resilience in the face of inhumanity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Until 1865 this production depended on slave labor, and it required a vast increase in the importation of enslaved Africans. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z She wrote “Quasheba, Quasheba,” about her biological father’s original New World ancestor, an enslaved Ghanaian woman who was transported to Grenada. Allison Russell Faces Her Past in Song 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Marshall personally held more than 150 people in bondage, and was perpetuating a particular, and particularly self-serving, worldview: Plaintiffs like Queen were to be presumed enslaved instead of free. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The preliminary results, listing about 1,400 enslaved people and 180 owners, will start appearing on Wednesday in a database posted at vahistorical.org. Antiques: Database of Viginia Slave Names Goes Online 2011-09-08T20:55:45Z The islands are also home to dozens of historical sites, including settlements established by formerly enslaved families and Grey Gardens-style crumbling estates. Last Stop on the Way to the Cosmos? No Thanks. 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Its grounds include a rebuilt cabin for enslaved people that is open during weddings. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Because one thing is certain, whatever the chronology: Our brainy, idiotic species will create a technology that either enslaves us or wipes us out altogether. ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Review: It’s Hasta la Vista All Over Again 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z As an academic, Professor Saxton expanded her scope of historical inquiry, looking beyond middle-class white women to examine the lives of women of color, enslaved women and incarcerated women. Martha Saxton, Historian Who Explored Women’s Lives, Dies at 77 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z I argue that the planters really had a three-part war, not only from northern abolitionists and the enslaved themselves but poor white workers against the institution of slavery. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Northern whites are induced to purchase slaves through tax credits that render the option very favorable, and Chinese immigrants in California are enslaved as well. “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America,” a Faux Documentary That Skewers Real White Supremacy 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Many of the patients were illiterate — an outgrowth of the prohibition on reading among enslaved people — and the archives don’t include their writing anyway. A Virginia mental institution for Black patients, opened after the Civil War, yields a trove of disturbing records 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Evil guy Immortan Joe enslaves people, hordes water, wears a chest piece that gives him fake abs and breathes out of a lizard neck device. “Mad Max: Fury Road”: Where feminist revenge fantasy meets old school redemption quest 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z There is no better place to set in context the history of chocolate and slavery than at a plantation where cocoa was processed and served by enslaved laborers. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z How did the lives of poor whites differ from those of poor blacks, both free and enslaved? Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z His name is Elric, a frail, drug-addicted albino and the reluctant ruler of the kingdom of Melniboné, where revenge and hedonism are abiding characteristics, and human beings are enslaved. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Long before Europeans arrived, Igbos enslaved other Igbos as punishment for crimes, for the payment of debts, and as prisoners of war. My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z The song imagines an enslaved man, nearing the end of his life, who has been sold away from his "old Kentucky home" to the Deep South and permanently separated from his loved ones. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Now, Ghana has invited the descendants of the enslaved to a place it wants us to call “home.” Jacqueline Woodson on Africa, America and Slavery’s Fierce Undertow 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The piece, slated for 2023, tells the true story of an enslaved Black woman who was part of a spy ring in Richmond during the Civil War. With MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, this 70-year-old choreographer has big plans for the future 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z These women were likely practitioners of hoodoo, sometimes called rootwork, a set of black folk traditions developed by enslaved West African people in America, which combined elements of vodou and Yoruba with Christianity. Playing Hoodoo: Renée Stout and “The Rootworker’s Table” 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z |
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