| 单词 | slave owner |
| 例句 | “All right, if Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner…” “Mr. Oliver?” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Hast thou ever heard slave owners talk? They use that phrase to say the colored men are constitutionally unfit to mingle with whites.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Gerry then presented his own personal estimate of the revenue required to compensate the slave owners for purchasing their slaves at current market value and came up with the figure of $10 million. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It is suspected that the “great big man” mentioned in the song might be the slave owner. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Well, I’ll be; him being the son of a slave owner and all,” Mama said. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the slave owners’ enforcers, the patrollers were the law: white, crooked, and merciless. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The country frightened slave owners; it did not change their views. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Jared: Right here, right now, on these red hills of Georgia, a son of former slaves and sons of former slave owners are sitting down at the table of brotherhood, dude. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z By the time the slave owner had resumed his search, Harriet had made her way safely to freedom. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Again Amari wondered how a slave owner could speak so strongly about freedom. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z His rambling remarks described the predicament of slave owners as truly tragic and not of their own making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But, paradoxically, that gave Haitian slave owners a new home. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In 1782 the Virginia legislature passed a law permitting slave owners to free their slaves at their own discretion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She don’t flash it ’round or nothing, but folks say anyone that can buy fifty acres without no loan must be rich as a slave owner! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The museum wants to be a place where descendants of Southern slave owners can engage with black history alongside the descendants of African American sharecroppers. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Unlike white pregnant women, perceived to exemplify the highest standard of womanhood, Black pregnant women were entitled to no protections except those required to protect slave owners’ “property” in the form of future Black children. The violent policing of Black motherhood: How and why cops target mothers of color 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Afrikaans developed in the Cape Town region among slaves from West Africa, the indigenous Khoi and San tribes and Indonesia who adapted the Dutch spoken by slave owners and colonial settlers into a common language. With rap and poetry, Cape Town tries to bridge racial divides 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z His suffering and exploitation at the hands of a succession of slave owners is unflinchingly detailed in a film that lays bare the cruelty and barbarity of this heinous institution. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z This is clear from the number of stories about slave owners being haunted by slaves. The Haunted Past 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Coyly, he mentioned the "unfairness" of former slave owners receiving only $300 in compensation for each slave freed by emancipation. Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z But it was a country created by slave owners and land owners who were trying to prevent a lot of people from having a say in how the country was run. Did George Carlin have the best comedy routine on every political subject? Judd Apatow thinks so 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z But of course slave owners denied Africans the right to read or write , creating laws that made it impossible to set down proof of one’s inner life. Two Books Consider Earthquakes and Their Human Tolls 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z As a child, Tubman was struck on the head by a heavy weight, thrown by a slave owner at somebody else. How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Andrew Jackson and George Washington, both notably slave owners, are framed on our money. Nine black artists reflect on the question: “Is America at a point of reckoning?” 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z He says the continued plastering over the city of the name and image of the slave owner Edward Colston is a “reminder that racism is alive and kicking”. Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Many Barbadian slave owners immigrated to the Carolinas and founded Charleston in 1670. While cruising, learn more by tapping the power of plugged-in local guides 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Ben Affleck says he's sorry about trying to conceal a branch of his family tree that included a slave owner. Ben Affleck sorry he had 'Finding Your Roots' conceal slave-owning ancestor 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Most of the slaves that you would find in jails were only there as runaways being held while the slave owner is trying to pick them. 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 “I’m just as much slave owner as I am slave,” one of them, Adam Coy, says. Review: Fixing a Dispassionate Stare on Slavery in ‘Southern Promises’ 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z One day, Tubman had arrived at Bucktown Village Store with a slave owner’s cook, crossing paths with an overseer arguing with his slave. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z He heightened a recent debate about Upright Citizens Brigade not paying its talent when, from its own stage, he likened the company to a slave owner. Amy Schumer’s Comedy Central Show, From the Inside 2013-04-18T12:00:01Z He depicted Washington, accurately, at a time when that was rarely acknowledged, as a slave owner and the leader of the nation that annihilated Native Americans. These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z What wrong might there be in bloody retribution against torturous slave owners, in Django Unchained? Tarantino's gruesome revenge fantasies are growing more puerile and misogynistic | Caspar Salmon 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z They know that the song was written by Francis Scott Key, a slave owner, who was ironically fighting for freedom. "What is American music?": Ryan Coogler leads a fresh exploration of the national anthem 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Known as a legume that could fatten the body, slave owners force-fed the kidnapped Africans a food that had a rich, near-spiritual meaning in West African homes. A New Orleans chef finds a place for fusion in the Black diaspora’s cuisine 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Inevitably, some writers questioned the merits of the “Banner” itself, pointing toward the fact that its author, Francis Scott Key, was a slave owner. Colin Kaepernick and the Radical Uses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The British invasion was especially unnerving to slave owners like Key because the British were offering freedom to African-Americans who joined their side. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z Several participants described corresponding with descendants of slave owners, only to get no response when they asked about wills and other family records that might hold genealogical clues. Familial Ties to Slavery, Bound by Vintage First-Person Accounts 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z He was also a slave owner, whose Dutch ancestors, some of the earliest immigrants to America, commandeered their territory from the Lenape Native Americans who had occupied the land for centuries. “I’m with Hillary 2016”: A Clinton Campaign Sign’s Final Resting Place 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z All of these big rich, ostensibly good Englishmen were often slave owners or benefited from slavery. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Jefferson, the liberty-extolling slave owner, is often denounced as a “hypocrite” — a word, Mr. Onuf said, he discouraged in his class discussions. Thomas Jefferson, Neither God Nor Devil 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z In the early days of the Civil War, the North and South both claimed the anthem — Key was, after all, a Maryland slave owner. ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ Has Changed a Lot in 200 Years 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z At the heart of what makes Ana off-putting is her emotional detachment — even motherhood doesn't soften her — and that she remains an unrepentant slave owner. 'Conquistadora': an ambitious woman's conquests in 19th-century Puerto Rico 2011-07-27T19:36:05Z “The only truly benevolent slave owner was the woman or man who freed all their slaves,” Greenberg crisply notes. The First Lady Who Begat Phyllis Schlafly, Nancy Reagan and Ivanka Trump? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z 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 Although slavery was abolished in the UK in 1833, the British government made a grave error by doling out funds to compensate slave owners for their "losses" after the fact. UK Twitter fuming over Whoopi Goldberg asking royals to apologize for slavery involvement 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z I like how you talk about the Constitution and how people act like it's some flawless holy document that wasn't created by a bunch of racist slave owners. Comedian Eric Andre: "This country's got a s**tty history" 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z In Butler’s hands, the slaves and slave owners Dana meets — and befriends, nurtures, protects and betrays — become individuals rather than historical abstractions. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Over Gothic organ and ominously ping-ponging synths, “New Slaves” finds West protesting that many of his business partners are just new slave owners in corporate disguise. Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z In the finale, Atticus and Leti summon their ancestors to help them resurrect a slave owner so Atticus can pin him down and tear into his chest with a knife to finish a spell. The Unintended Racial Horror of ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z In Reed’s play, Hamilton is unmasked as a slave owner who once worked for a slave trading firm in St. Croix. Historians irked by musical ‘Hamilton’ escalate their duel 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Even the site for the nation’s capital city — Washington, D.C. — was chosen to accommodate the mighty bloc of Southern slave owners. Charting 5 Centuries of African American History 2013-10-21T14:43:26Z When one character discovers ancestors in the Gemmer bloodline, the reaction has the horror of a progressive activist who learns there are slave owners in his family tree. Fantasies for Young Readers, With an Eye on Today’s Fears and Divisions 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z That book, published in 2019, put front and center a woman whom generations of historians — almost all men — had dismissed as a cruel slave owner who mistreated her famous son. Martha Saxton, Historian Who Explored Women’s Lives, Dies at 77 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z “The seven actors, portraying slave owners as well as slaves, transport us, showing us the auction block in our nation’s past — when people were a commodity for speculation — linking arms and embracing a collective consciousness.” James de Jongh, Who Put Stories of Slavery Onstage, Dies at 80 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z He called a Purple Heart recipient a “moron” for suggesting that it was worth discussing the idea of removing monuments of George Washington, the United States’ first president and a slave owner. Perspective | Tucker Carlson’s attacks on Sen. Tammy Duckworth are as disgusting as they are predictable 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Dany takes the advice to heart and sends Jorah away, after which Jorah returns to the slave owner demanding he be able to return to the fighting pits and, essentially, giving away his life. “Game of Thrones” recap: An epic battle previews the horror of winter to come 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z He also proposed a new presentation of the toppling of 17th century slave owner Edward Colston that was brought down by protesters in the artist’s home city of Bristol. Banksy mural stolen from Bataclan theater found in Italian farmhouse 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z By 1828, she became the first Black woman to win a case against a former slave owner. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The smudges bring to mind the story of a Maryland slave owner, Col. Theaster Gates Turns the Stain of the Past Into Art 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z A few antiques will be on view, including a 19th-century cotton gin that was patented by Fones McCarthy, a New Yorker who became a slave owner in Alabama. McLeod Plantation Museum Tells the Story of the South 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Congo and his wife are taken as property of the Company of the Indies, the governing body of French Louisiana, rather than being sold to individual slave owners. Louisiana’s hidden history: The former slave who became an executioner 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z The slave owner could still buy and sell “married” slaves, often separating husband from wife and destroying families in the process. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z As for the toppling of the slave owner’s statue this year, that should be a wake-up call to the establishment that “change will come one way or another”. Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Here I am, I’m dark, I’m 53, I’m in my natural hair – I’m in bed with Liam Neeson … And he’s not my slave owner. Liam Neeson: After a friend was raped, I wanted to kill a black man 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Those ancestors were forced to Cuba by their French slave owners after the slave revolts of the 1790s. ArtsBeat: Creole Choir of Cuba Brings Island's Music to Brooklyn 2011-06-03T18:37:23Z B. J. J., following his therapist’s advice, decides to restage “The Octoroon,” but white actors refuse to work with him: nobody wants to play slave owners. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z 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 In her research, Lemmons encountered unsettling photographs featuring white children of slave owners posing alongside black children their families owned. We all know Harriet Tubman was a hero. The stars of ‘Harriet’ want you to see her humanity. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Oddly enough, some slave owners encouraged marriage among their slaves — partly to assuage criticism by abolitionists and partly to render their slaves more reluctant to run away. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z Some slave owners used the peach harvest as a kind of festival for their chattel and runaways provisioned their secret journeys in untended orchards. Peaches are a minor part of Georgia’s economy, but they’re central to its mythology 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Grant’s wife, Julia, the daughter of an unrepentant slave owner, had a pronounced taste for status. How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z They captured some of the eternal ideas about liberty and freedom, then you turn the page, and it’s about compensating slave owners whose slaves had been injured or who escaped under British forces. Owning George Washington: The Auction 2011-04-06T21:53:42Z It shows the hatred that was around at the time for slaves, slave owners, blacks and whites - but misses that real passion and understanding of the time, because it was written much later. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - review 2012-06-25T08:00:00Z The father of our country was one of its largest slave owners, even as one of his slaves, Harry Washington, understandably fled to join a British regiment and fight against the patriots. Charting 5 Centuries of African American History 2013-10-21T14:43:26Z For example, in Texas and other parts of the slaveocracy slave owners would go and get a human being really cheap comparatively and work them to death. 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 Though slave owners tended to value their slaves’ distilling prowess, they rarely documented how the slaves made such fine spirits. Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z That included a Revolutionary War ancestor and a mother who marched for civil rights, but no slave owner. Ben Affleck sorry he had 'Finding Your Roots' conceal slave-owning ancestor 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z 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 It was a way for slave owners to continue to employ people for basically nothing. "Equity within the whole restaurant": The problem with the tipped wage 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Barnett, too, was from East Texas, “where the arm of the law had quickly replaced the slave owners’ shackles as a method of social and economic control.” The Injustice Deep Within the Justice System 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z “We wanted to acknowledge the family’s history in dealing with the slave owners of Alabama, when the three founding brothers first arrived from Germany,” Mendes said in an email. Adrian Lester Finally Arrives on Broadway, via Wall Street 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z I caught up with Matthew as he was explaining how, after the United States abolished the international slave trade, slave owners relied on breeding to fill their ranks. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Why not replace Andrew Jackson—an architect of the forced removal and slaughter of native peoples, and a slave owner—on the twenty-dollar bill, instead? The Haunted Image of Harriet Tubman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Though American capitalists were slave owners who derived much of their wealth from forced, unpaid labor, they revered the concept of work. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z In fact, many slaves were freed by other slave owners after this law passed. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z Within the narrative of the film — which spans from the Antebellum to Reconstruction periods on a Georgia plantation — slave owners and slavery supporters are the heroes and slaves appear as happy, loving servants. "Gone With the Wind" dropped from Memphis theater over racial concerns 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z But his determined pursuit of Judge, she said, as much as his will freeing his slaves, reflects the basic mind-set of slave owners. In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Maunsell White, an Irish immigrant, slave owner and entrepreneur, operated a large plantation in Louisiana. How did hot sauce get in so many African Americans’ bags, anyway? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z “I’m reluctant to use the words ‘benevolent slave owner,’ ” she said. Antiques: Search for de Soto in Southeast Georgia 2010-05-20T22:44:00Z In other words, the founding fathers were well aware of the economic advantage to slave owners of limiting the Atlantic slave trade. Robots, Female War Correspondents and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Queenie’s story — her dissatisfaction with the overwhelming whiteness of her coven, her complex relationship with a resurrected slave owner — was cogent, humane, complex and compelling. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 11: Hotel California 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Key was a slave owner and a key member of The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, which advocated sending free blacks to Liberia in West Africa. 'Star-Spangled Banner' author may have been tone deaf: book 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z He orchestrates an uprising that leaves dozens of slave owners dead. #OscarsSoWhite isn’t the only problem diversity faces in Hollywood 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Bordeaux and the French port of Le Havre, further north, were part of a triangle for the slave trade that sent captive Black people from Africa to slave owners across the Atlantic Ocean. Art student defaces Bordeaux slave statue; no racist motive 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z For slave owners, profit was a secondary concern. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z “I understood the text,” Foxx said, alluding to the historical accuracy of the word and how it was used relentlessly by slave owners on plantations. Jamie Foxx looks back at “Django Unchained” and Quentin Tarantino’s use of the N-word 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Last year, Oliver Dowden, the country’s culture minister at the time, wrote to museum leaders, telling them to “retain and explain” disputed monuments, like statues of slave owners, rather than removing them from view. As Europe Returns Artifacts, Britain Stays Silent 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Reed, who has not seen “Hamilton” but read it, criticizes the musical as just the latest piece of entertainment that is sympathetic to slave owners. Historians irked by musical ‘Hamilton’ escalate their duel 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Chernow describes both the pettiness of these complaints and the gravity of other, more important ones, most crucially Washington’s behavior as a slave owner. Books of The Times: Dusting Off an Elusive President?s Dull Image 2010-09-27T23:42:00Z 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 During the Civil War, Richmond served as the capital of the Confederacy, and Stuart was a Confederate commander and slave owner. A Virginia school named after a Confederate general will be renamed Barack Obama Elementary School 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Would you rather drive down a highway named after the leader of slave owners, or a highway named after anything — or nearly anyone — else? I’d rather drive on Highway McHighwayface than another Jefferson Davis Highway 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The controversy was part of a larger push to remove statues, monuments, and other images across America honoring certain historical figures, Confederate soldiers, slave owners, and others. Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from front of NYC's Museum of Natural History 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “Your lordship will remember the slave owners were compensated when slavery was abolished.” How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The image of the genteel, benevolent Southern slave owner was the creation of early 20th century artists and writers like D.W. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z From the start Key denounced Coxe for even defending the advocates of Negro citizenship and those who questioned the slave owners’ expansive definition of property rights. Francis Scott Key on trial 2012-07-04T11:30:00Z If there are any barbarians in this series, they are the denizens of Europe, who are nearly always depicted as racists, conquerors, looters, slave owners, colonialists and originators of the lurid “male gaze” in art. Review: Anodyne ‘Civilizations’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z I mean people are taking down statues of slave owners, people that profited off the slave trade and Christopher Columbus who killed between three million and eight million Arawak Indians. Comedian Eric Andre: "This country's got a s**tty history" 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z What is burned to the ground, satisfyingly, are the houses of holdout slave owners, landed aristocrats. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s not the big bad slave owner; there are moments of levity and sadness and conflict in him. Christopher Meloni on His 'More Wolf Than Human' Slave Catcher in 'Underground' 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In the course of filming, the show’s genealogy experts discovered a fact that Affleck didn’t feel like sharing with the public — that his great-great-great-grandfather on his mother’s side had been a Georgia slave owner. ‘Hollywood Game Night’ and the problem with the celebrity fun bus 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Griffin Newman presides as his sidekick, dressed as Watto, the junk dealer and slave owner of a certain Skywalker or two in “Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace.” 8 Things to Do This Halloween Weekend 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Why not replace Andrew Jackson—an architect of the forced removal and slaughter of native peoples, and a slave owner—on the twenty-dollar bill instead? The Haunted Image of Harriet Tubman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Baumfree later freed her son, who had been sold to an Alabama slave owner, by bringing her case to court. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Yet it is hard to imagine that during this period an even more poorly documented atrocity was being perpetrated: The Cherokee were slave owners long before their forced removal from the southern states. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z 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 And his relatives in New Haven, home to Yale University, were slave owners, researchers say. Painting of Yale namesake and enslaved child back on display 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The report says that of the 50 individuals represented most frequently by monuments in this country, 88 percent are white men, and half were slave owners. They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The society, which included both slave owners and abolitionists, was motivated by the racist belief that Black people could not be integrated into American society. Marking a Different Thanksgiving Tradition, From West Africa 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z 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 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 Now Sloane is no longer simply celebrated as a natural history collector, but labeled a “slave owner.” The British Museum Reopens to a World That Has Changed 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z It was a gut punch, although I knew my family was slave owners.” Owning George Washington: The Auction 2011-04-06T21:53:42Z “George Washington was a slave owner,” Trump said to journalists in the lobby of his corporate headquarters. Whataboutism: The Cold War tactic, thawed by Putin, is brandished by Donald Trump 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z For example, Samuel, although he’s a slave owner, seems at first somewhat benign. #OscarsSoWhite isn’t the only problem diversity faces in Hollywood 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Protestors across the country have been taking down statues of slave owners and oppressors. Monuments to Black lives have no value without justice and meaningful change 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z “Often you see villainous slave owners and victimized slaves.” How Gugu Mbatha-Raw Brings History to Life 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Even before its People's Choice win, "12 Years a Slave" was garnering Oscar buzz, with critics praising both McQueen and Ejiofor, but also Michael Fassbender's turn as a brutal slave owner. '12 Years a Slave' wins top prize at Toronto film fest 2013-09-15T20:40:12Z We considered some African American names, but when tried on a white kid, they just sounded like he was a slave owner or a white Muslim. A boy named Sue? Why not! I named my kids Yo and E 2014-03-22T23:00:00Z Key looked into the eyes of the six justices sitting for the case, four of whom were slave owners, and announced that “by the law of nature, all men are free.” “By the law of nature, all men are free”: Francis Scott Key and the case of the slave ship Antelope 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the president noted, were also slave owners. Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z ‘By the River Rivanna,’ depicting a gay romance between a slave owner and an enslaved person, has divided administrators, faculty and students at the community college. Opinion: Censorship rears its ugly head at Santa Monica College, over a play about slavery 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z In the year 1850, a white male slave owner and an enslaved Black man, both raised on the fictional Hope Plantation, hide a secret love affair. How a 'shocking' play about slavery set off a firestorm at Santa Monica College 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z It was also the slave owners who then received compensation, rather than the emancipated slaves. History of slavery haunts the royals 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z That ancestor, John Gladstone, was the father of 19th Century Prime Minister William Gladstone and one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies. Charlie Gladstone: Rishi Sunak is completely wrong on slavery 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z But many slave owners didn’t want to see this change come. Celebrating Juneteenth 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z When slavery was abolished, slave owners were compensated. David Harewood: Actor says the government should apologise for slavery 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z She and Junius were particularly taken aback by a scene in which the enslaved character is taken offstage to be beaten by the slave owner. How a 'shocking' play about slavery set off a firestorm at Santa Monica College 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z John Gladstone - the father of William Gladstone, one of the UK's most revered prime ministers - was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies. Gladstone family urged to pay slavery reparations to Jamaica 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z The debate about reparations is nuanced, though, and other descendants of slave owners have different perspectives. Charlie Gladstone: Rishi Sunak is completely wrong on slavery 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z The 19th Century prime minister was the son of John Gladstone, one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies. William Gladstone's family apologises for role in slave trade 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z In recent years, Caribbean leaders, activists and the descendants of slave owners have been putting Western government under increasing pressure to engage with the reparations movement. UK’s £18tn slavery debt is an underestimation, UN judge says 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z William was the son of John Gladstone, who was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies. William Gladstone's family to apologise for slavery links 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z The Gladstones are the latest British descendants of slave owners to attempt to atone for the actions of their ancestors in recent years. Gladstone family urged to pay slavery reparations to Jamaica 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Having been in contact with more than 100 descendants of slave owners, Charlie Gladstone is willing to help others come to terms with the ugly inheritance imposed of them by accident of birth. Charlie Gladstone: Rishi Sunak is completely wrong on slavery 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z But he was also an outspoken anti-abolitionist slave owner who held repellent beliefs about African Americans. Is Social Justice for the Birds? Audubon Attempts an Answer. 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Some of the descendants of slave owners - such as former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan, and the family of 19th Century Prime Minister William Gladstone - have attempted to make amends. UK’s £18tn slavery debt is an underestimation, UN judge says 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z In 1831, William Gladstone, who was Liberal prime minister on four occasions in the 19th Century, used his first Commons speech to argue in favour of compensation for slave owners. William Gladstone's family to apologise for slavery links 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z He keeps digging in deeper, sending an insulting public letter to Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming that it's "nation-leading" history class standards to recycle the talking points of 19th-century slave owners. The simple reason why Ron DeSantis keeps finding his campaign embroiled in scandal 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z One, Betty Washington Lewis, whom Allen and Rice identified as a “shoemaker,” was white: She was George Washington’s younger sister and a slave owner. Column: The story behind that Florida school curriculum that whitewashed slavery keeps getting worse 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z After all, they were all rich white men, and most were slave owners. Drugs in the White House? Horrors! Guess what: It wouldn't be the first time 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z There was no social stigma to prevent a slave owner from recognizing his children with an enslaved woman; the children were born free, and the mother gained her freedom upon the death of her owner. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The president of the student union, Gabi Fullam, said the university’s increasingly diverse students and staff could no longer accept the main library being named after a slave owner. Philosopher, Slaver and, Now, Former Face of Trinity College Library 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z But those in favour point to the fact that slave owners were compensated, while the enslaved and their descendants were not. St Kitts and Nevis is not totally free under King Charles III, says PM 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z And he did not mention the ransom that France extorted from Haiti to compensate former slave owners, which has since hobbled its economic development. Your Friday Briefing 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z In particular, he did not mention the ransom that France extorted from Haiti to compensate former slave owners and that hobbled Haiti’s economic development for more than a century. Macron Honors Haitian Revolutionary, but Leaves Much Unsaid 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z This year, Caribbean leaders, activists and the descendants of slave owners have been putting the UK government under increasing pressure to engage with the reparations movement. Slavery: Rishi Sunak rejects call to apologise and pay reparations 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Critics called him “too woke, and said I had forced them to discuss the fact that Jefferson and Madison were slave owners,” he said. Rubenstein spent years preserving objects. Now he’s looking for meaning. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z In 2015 British taxpayers finished paying off the debt which the government incurred to compensate British slave owners after abolition in 1833. St Kitts and Nevis is not totally free under King Charles III, says PM 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z That is the new name unveiled Tuesday of the organization formerly known as the Seattle chapter of the National Audubon Society, as it severs ties from its namesake, slave owner John James Audubon. Seattle Audubon unveils new name after severing tie to slave owner 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z And in a particularly grotesque example from 1862, D.C. slave owners were given reparations for the loss of the value of freed enslaved people. More than 150 years after slavery was outlawed, a debt is still unpaid 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z This week, the descendants of some of the UK's wealthiest slave owners launched an activist movement, urging the government to apologise for slavery and offer reparative justice. Slavery: Rishi Sunak rejects call to apologise and pay reparations 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z They argue that Californians who were never slave owners should not have to give money to people who were not enslaved. San Francisco reparations plan proposes $5m for black residents 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z But Niambi believes reparations are important for the descendants of both slave owners and enslaved Africans. St Kitts and Nevis is not totally free under King Charles III, says PM 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Generally, reparations opponents say taxpayers who were never slave owners should not have to pay money to people who were not enslaved. San Francisco to air Black reparations plan, $5M per person 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z For example, TCD's library is named after the philosopher George Berkeley, an 18th Century slave owner. Trinity College Dublin to return skulls to Inishbofin 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Reparations critics say that monetary compensation and other forms of atonement are not necessary when no one alive today was enslaved or a slave owner, overlooking the inequities today impacting later generations of Black Americans. Japanese Americans won redress, fight for Black reparations 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Each 24 feet long, they show the brutality of slavery in bold, expressive strokes, with scenes including a slave market, a slave owner wielding a whip and an attacking dog. Your Wednesday Briefing 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The two murals, each 24 feet long, depict the brutality of slavery, with scenes including a slave market, a slave owner wielding a whip and an attacking dog. In Vermont, a School and Artist Fight Over Murals of Slavery 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z During the colonial period, slaves were banned from eating the spicy dish, and would have to prepare it for French slave owners. Amid crisis, Haitians find solace in an unlikely place: soup 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z He’s been called a Nazi, and his Christian beliefs have been likened to the beliefs of slave owners. End legalized persecution of baker Jack Phillips 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z In 1524, conquistador Hernán Cortés signed a decree stating that all landowning settlers who were slave owners had quotas for planting Spanish grape vines. 'What is wine about? Conviviality. Nothing could be more Latino than wine. Wine is so Latino, it hurts.' 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z When slavery was abolished throughout most of the British Empire in 1833, the British government compensated former slave owners for their financial losses. Is Benedict Cumberbatch facing slavery reparations in Barbados? Official says no 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Even after slavery was abolished in the colonies, enslaved people were required to continue working on plantations for another decade afterward to minimize losses for the slave owners. Dutch Prime Minister Apologizes for His Country’s Role in the Slave Trade 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Robert E. Lee was a Virginian slave owner and colonel in the U.S. How Army Bases in the South Were Named for Defeated Confederates 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Its settlements are a tiny fraction of the compensation paid to British slave owners in 1835, once it — at least formally — abolished slavery. Quit fawning over the royals: The British monarchy is a tool of class war and white supremacy 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z They teach that progressivism conflicts with the nation’s founding ideals, and assert that most of the founders — including such slave owners as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison — wanted to end slavery. Conservative college’s curriculum gets foothold in S. Dakota 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z A judge has given a church permission to remove a memorial to 18th Century slave owner, John Gordon. Racist memorial to slaver to be removed from Dorchester church 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The conservative think tank says Montpelier devotes even more time to Madison’s role as a slave owner, labels the Constitution a racist document and neglects his role in forming the United States. Conservatives decry ‘racialist agenda’ at Jefferson’s Monticello, Madison’s Montpelier 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Leonidas Polk was an Episcopal bishop and slave owner in Louisiana who had graduated from West Point. How Army Bases in the South Were Named for Defeated Confederates 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The portrait was removed from National Museum Cardiff in November following scrutiny of memorials to slave owners. Slave owner Sir Thomas Picton portrait returns in bid to reframe past 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Once on free soil, some slaves thought they should be free, while slave owners thought otherwise — a perfect conundrum for the Supreme Court. Supreme Court: State-by-state human rights 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z From the country’s earliest days, swimming was an activity curbed and constrained by racism, brutally punished by slave owners who saw it as an avenue to freedom. ‘Swimming Wasn’t for Us’ 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z He was one of 12 children who grew up on a plot of land owned by a former slave owner. Catfish tacos with Brussels sprouts slaw can be part of a delicious Juneteenth celebration 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z John Brown Gordon was a lawyer and slave owner from Georgia who was commissioned as a captain in the Confederate army in 1861, despite having no military training or experience before the war. How Army Bases in the South Were Named for Defeated Confederates 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z When asked what should happen to other portraits, statues and streets named after Picton and other slave owners, she said there was "no one answer" which applied to all. Slave owner Sir Thomas Picton portrait returns in bid to reframe past 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The demands of slave labor prevented mothers from nursing their children, and slave owners separated mothers from their own babies to have them serve as wet nurses, breastfeeding other women’s children. Baby formula shortage highlights racial disparities 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The demands of slave labor prevented mothers from nursing their children, and slave owners separated mothers from their own babies to have them serve as wet nurses, or women who breastfeed other women’s children. Baby formula shortage highlights racial disparities 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z “To know that I was the descendant of a slave owner was quite a slap in the face.” Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z If anyone had "white privilege", it was surely me, a descendant of Caribbean slave owners. Grenada: Confronting my family’s slave-owning past 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z “One good act would not absolve him from being a slave owner and defending slavery to the end.” Jim Limber and the myth of the Confederate president’s adopted Black son 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z William Brown Street, named after a 19th Century cotton trader and slave owner, will be one of a series of streets in the city to get the signs. Liverpool slavery street plaque unveiling a 'milestone moment' 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Glasgow is yet to apologise for its role in slavery and still has streets named after 18th Century slave owners. Glasgow's statues have connections to the Atlantic slave trade 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Hearing his gibes, thousands of northerners became increasingly convinced that slave owners not only oppressed blacks but despised their own aspirations as well. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The father of Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone was a slave owner, as was a distant relative of David Cameron's. Grenada: Confronting my family’s slave-owning past 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The law allowed slave owners to demand the return of escaped or even freed slaves no matter where in the U.S. they were found. Column: A law would criminalize care for transgender kids in Idaho — and outside Idaho 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z At the same time, he was also a slave owner. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of these individuals have shaped the city, with 62 streets named after slave owners who made their fortunes on tobacco plantations. Glasgow's statues have connections to the Atlantic slave trade 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z In their hearts, slave owners knew that superficial acquiescence was not the same as true submission, and they charged their slaves with perpetual deception. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z As Ms Phillip-Dowe introduced me to a packed classroom as a descendant of slave owners on Grenada, the girls looked on with intense interest. Grenada: Confronting my family’s slave-owning past 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z “Islamic texts have spoken about slavery and rights of a slave. There is a whole jurisprudence about slavery and the rights of slaves and the rights of slave owners,” he said in an interview. Defense lawyers seek to restrict testimony from ISIS ‘slave’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z And they overwhelmingly preferred the conservative who advocated zero minimum wage, opposed abortion rights and suggested that descendants of slave owners be paid reparations for loss of their ancestors’ property. Newsom's waning voter approval might've given the GOP a shot. But they blew it in the recall 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z In them, she said Asian Americans were like slaves who benefited from working inside a slave owner’s house — a comparison that Asian American groups and many city leaders called racist. In Landslide, San Francisco Forces Out 3 Board of Education Members 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Slave prices hit their all-time high on the eve of the Civil War, a good indication of slave owners’ confidence in their economic prospects. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Having found these traces of my family's legacy as slave owners on this island, was it possible that I could find someone descended from slaves owned by the Trevelyans? Grenada: Confronting my family’s slave-owning past 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z “Where’s his … slave owner? Who let him out of his chains? Who let him out of his cage? He’s a monkey!” the student yelled as Makai shot free throws. After a Black student faced racist slurs, some wonder: Will O.C. ever change? 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z “We must forget,” he writes, “that George Washington was a slave owner, or that Thomas Jefferson had mulatto children … and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring.” Opinion | The Backlash Against C.R.T. Shows That Republicans Are Losing Ground 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z His parents were a wealthy slave owner on a plantation in the West Indies and a slave. BBC Radio 3 to shine light on 'forgotten' composers 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Where slaves were numerous, slave owners clung to their valuable property and many whites feared a large free black population. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The records revealed the names of the 46,000 slave owners who received compensation when Britain abolished African slavery in 1833. Grenada: Confronting my family’s slave-owning past 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Senate “a shell of its former self” and compared lawmakers who oppose the Democrats’ package of voting laws to notorious segregationists and slave owners. Biden’s fiery, angry speeches set tone for 2022 midterms 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z By visiting the New York Cotton Exchange building, wherein slave owners received insurance on the enslaved, the film destroys the unfounded myth of slavery as solely a Southern problem. Review: 'Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America' imparts powerful lessons 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z "That comparison that he makes to slave owners and slaves is not, sort of, totally unreasonable or out of bounds," she said. Michele Tafoya’s NBC role changing after Kaepernick remarks on ‘The View’: report 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z They confronted slave owners in Congress by electing antislavery representatives from sympathetic northern districts and petitioning Congress to end slavery in the nation’s capital. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Ten of the nation’s first 12 presidents may have been slave owners, but their ideas about the unalienable rights of all human beings resonated through the ages, particularly to those descended from slaves. Even a day to remember slavery divides us 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Towson University, for example, removed the names of slave owners from two dorm halls earlier this year. Georgia university system refuses to rename buildings, insists 'history' teaches 'important lessons' 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z In October it was announced that a statue of former president Thomas Jefferson - one of America's founding fathers but also a slave owner - would come down in New York following a public consultation. Bristol: Colston's toppling sparked 'vital' debate in US 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z A portrait of Welsh slave owner Sir Thomas Picton has been taken down from National Museum Cardiff. Cardiff museum takes down slave owner Thomas Picton's portrait 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Wealthy slave owners could afford to take a long view and attempt to keep their chattels healthy, but an ambitious renter like Edward Covey had little use for such pains. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He proposed reparations for slave owners because their "property" was taken away by Abraham Lincoln. Trumpism on the run, California recall shows 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z "If somebody was found not on their plantation and on their way somewhere else, they often had to have a pass signed off on by their slave owner." Grim echoes of history in images of Haitians at US-Mexico border 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z I can trace myself back to slave owners. Bristol: Colston's toppling sparked 'vital' debate in US 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Throughout the years, the host has made numerous incendiary comments about women, race, and LGBTQ+ issues, once even suggesting that the descendants of slave owners should benefit from reparations. Gavin Newsom beats back Republican recall effort, remains governor of California 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z In July on “The Candace Owens Show,” Elder suggested in a discussion about reparations for slave descendants that slave owners also deserved reparations for having their property taken away. Larry Elder, right-wing radio host, seeks governorship in California recall 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z He pointed to Elder’s statement that an argument could be made to owe reparations to slave owners’ descendants as well as to Black people, and highlighted Heatlie’s previous Facebook comment to “microchip all illegal aliens.” Newsom slams GOP, while Elder targets governor's wife as recall campaign closes 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Freed slaves were given artificial names, often tied to the slave owner, the plantation or random amalgamations of Dutch cities or Dutch-sounding words, although regular Dutch surnames were banned. 'I'll be at front of queue to change my slave name' 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z In a July interview with conservative political commentator Candace Owens, Elder said “you could make an argument” that slave owners as well as slaves were owed reparations after the Civil War. Can Larry Elder build ‘movement’ from California recall? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z More recently, Black voters have heard his case for reparations to the descendants of slave owners who lost their “property” when enslaved Black people were emancipated. Larry Elder calls himself 'Sage from South Central.' But his ties to Black L.A. are tenuous 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z “It’s like slave owners making slaves buck dance for their entertainment,” Bledsoe said. Texas NAACP files federal complaint over “The Eyes of Texas” 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z In the 1860s, he tells college kids, “In many respects, slave owners believed that slavery was the future. They hoped to expand.” At 24, in the Civil War, he was saving the Union. Buried in Seattle, he deserved a headstone 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Figures were also crosschecked with a database of British slave owners compiled by University College London. Bank of England Removes Art of Leaders Linked to Slave Trade 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The great contradiction of Boston’s Old North Church is that a site pivotal to the freedom of the nation is the same place where slave owners and traders once worshiped. Historic American church set to integrate its slavery ties 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z French slave owners made Catholicism Haiti’s official religion, but it endured even after the slave revolt and Haitian independence, a faith Haitians are deeply bound to. Haiti Quake Destroyed Many Churches, Shredding a Mainstay of Support 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Barnes said Johnson, a slave owner, and others forced Native Americans to pay for the construction materials and build the school, and tribal families paid up to $20 per student to attend. Chief wants Kansas site included in unmarked graves search 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Mouton, whose full name was Jean-Jacques-Alfred-Alexandre Mouton, was a slave owner and son of a former Louisiana governor. Confederate monument removed from city hall in Louisiana 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z In fact, 14 of the 21 so-called Founding Fathers were reportedly slave owners. Kayleigh McEnany lies while defending slave owners: "Our main Founding Fathers were against slavery" 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Last year, several prominent statues of Confederate leaders and slave owners were torn down and vandalised in the US, generating heated debate about monuments. Canada: Queen Victoria statue torn down at protest over indigenous deaths 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z It also isn’t historically accurate to claim that Republicans “freed slaves from Democrat slave owners.” NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z The committee concluded that honoring the slave owners wouldn’t meet the current guidelines. Towson University removes slave owners’ names from buildings 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Several community members called the board’s decision into question afterward for refusing to sever its association with a secessionist slave owner who fought to further the forced enslavement of Black people. Washington & Lee to keep name; trustees ‘regret’ school’s past ‘veneration of the Confederacy’ 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z Conservatives often point to the claim that some of the slave owners publicly acknowledged that the practice was wrong. Kayleigh McEnany lies while defending slave owners: "Our main Founding Fathers were against slavery" 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z “And some of them, ironically enough, actually purchased the plantations on which they were slaves. In two cases, they even took in the slave owners’ families that had become destitute. Conservative Black intellectuals battle 1619 Project, ‘race-grievance onslaught’ 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z CLAIM: Juneteenth is “the day Republicans freed slaves from Democrat slave owners.” NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z And a third bill would block exhibits at San Antonio’s Alamo complex from explaining that major figures in the Texas Revolution were slave owners. Texas Pushes to Obscure the State’s History of Slavery and Racism 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z How hypocritical, then, to keep the slave owner name, while canceling Huxley. Reconsider cancel-culture target at WWU 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The exhibit, called “Blood, Sweat and Tears,” includes documentation of those known to be enslaved on numerous plantations, pictures of slave owners, and soil collected from plantations in the Houma-Thibodaux area. Curator: people may find their history in slave ship exhibit 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The exhibit will feature soil collections from plantations in the Houma-Thibodaux area, pictures of slave owners, documentation of those known to be enslaved on numerous plantations and activities for children. Finding Our Roots African American museum to reopen 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z But the board of the Architect of the Capitol approved last year’s removal of the the Douglas statue and one of Pierre Menard, an early Illinois settler, politician and slave owner. House to review Capitol artifacts for offensive depictions 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson Middle School, located in Waukegan, Illinois, will officially undergo a name change as the founding father's legacy as a slave owner continues to stir controversy. Illinois school renamed to honor John Lewis, after 'Obama' proposal sparked backlash 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z As Western Washington University examines the names of its building and programs, it’s not George Washington, the slave owner, being reviewed. Reconsider cancel-culture target at WWU 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “I don’t need a slave owner sanding on a pedestal while I tend to the garden.” Baltimore removes statue of slaveowner near its waterfront 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Conversely, I always wonder, what's it like for those descended from slave owners and their view of this country? CNN's Don Lemon on why Trump was good for America: "Now we see them for what they are" 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z ISU’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution by a 29-2 margin last month and cited Lee’s past as both a slave owner and general of the Confederate rebellion against the United States. Editorial Roundup: Indiana 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Some slave owners recorded marriages, deaths and births among the people they enslaved in family Bibles. With slavery’s impact, how do Black residents find ancestors 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Consider two names associated with one of our state’s public universities, one a slave owner and the other an abolitionist. Reconsider cancel-culture target at WWU 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Should we change the names of streets, schools and states named after such slave owners as former Presidents George Washington or Thomas Jefferson? Editorial Roundup: Kansas 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z "The church is the backbone because even during slavery times, slave owners would allow Blacks to assemble in a religious manner," Simelton said. Coronavirus pandemic forces Black churches to adapt to new way of worship 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Tubman’s first known act of defiance against slavery: The icon for freedom refused a brutal slave owner’s orders to help him detain another slave near the Bucktown Village Store in Maryland. Harriet Tubman: What to know about the Underground Railroad icon 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z “In 30 or 40 years people are going to say, ‘Why did we have schools named after slave owners?’” she said. It’s Liberals vs. Liberals in San Francisco After Schools Erase Contested Names 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Others argued that current names mean students are wearing school sweatshirts with the names of slave owners, including Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. San Francisco to strip Washington, Lincoln from school names 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Washington and Jefferson were both slave owners and Lincoln, who ended slavery, became controversial because critics claim he oppressed indigenous people. San Francisco school board votes to rename schools honoring Washington, Lincoln, Feinstein, others 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The US Treasury said she would replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner. Harriet Tubman: Biden moves to put anti-slavery activist on $20 bill 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z “This country was founded as a slave owners’ republic,” said Kevin K. Gaines, Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at the University of Virginia. Our democracy is wounded. How will we heal it? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z In 2016, the San Francisco Board of Education president sought to change the names of any of the city’s schools titled after slave owners such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Cancel Abraham Lincoln? San Francisco grapples with the president's legacy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z As part of a larger response to issues surfaced by the Black Lives Matter protests, the New Orleans Museum of Art closed its Greenwood Parlour, an 1850s plantation interior that many thought glorified slave owners. When the world reopens, will art museums still be there? 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z In July, a statue of a 19th Century slave owner Sir Thomas Picton in Cardiff City Hall was covered over. Slavery: Audit finds 200 commemorations to slave trade in Wales 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Hamilton has come in for criticism from the Black Lives Matter movement for not exploring the fact that the main characters were slave owners. Lin-Manuel Miranda: 'Death suffuses my work, and part of that is growing up in New York' 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z In 1772, he was taken to England by a prominent slave owner, and eventually became free, though the historical record on how exactly that happened remains murky. Abolitionist Is Earliest Black Londoner Honored With Blue Plaque 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z “It is reasonable for people to say, ’I don’t want to keep celebrating people” who were prominent slave owners or Confederate sympathizers, she said. Slave owner or not?: Asheville struggles to rename streets 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Amid a nationwide racial reckoning, the school's former superintendent said in June that they would not remove the statue of Jackson, a Confederate general and slave owner who was also a professor at VMI. Virginia Military Institute removing Stonewall Jackson statue from campus 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z There is another George Washington who was the son of a slave, not a slave owner. State name: Follow King County’s lead 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z It was enormously cathartic to write Hamilton calling out Washington for being a slave owner, but it doesn’t get the ball down the field, it doesn’t move time and story. Lin-Manuel Miranda: 'Death suffuses my work, and part of that is growing up in New York' 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Washington, in fact, enacted a 1793 law providing a legal means for slave owners to reclaim their lost “property.” Washington is named for a president who owned slaves. Should it be? 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z That is because at least three members of the Merrimon family were documented slave owners. Slave owner or not?: Asheville struggles to rename streets 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z In his novel, the slave owners are just as often dirty and down on their luck — men who are barely making a way for themselves — as they are grandiose, self-important and lacking humanity. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is Good TV. But Mix Art and Slavery at Your Peril. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The major beats of Brown’s biography are all there — his single-minded faith, his violent attacks on slave owners, his eventual execution by the state — but the space in between them is what is invented. The Good Lord Bird is a timely reminder that Americans aren’t usually fans of progress 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z However, soon after assuming office in May 1865, President Andrew Johnson, himself a former slave owner, gave instructions to cease all land reparations to freed people by the summer. How the long fight for slavery reparations is slowly being won 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “I learned of Stephen Douglas’ disturbing past as a Mississippi slave owner and his abhorrent words toward people of color,” Madigan said in a July statement. Stephen A. Douglas statue removed from Illinois Capitol lawn 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Among them was the demand “that streets named after former slave owners also be replaced with names of historic local black leaders.” Slave owner or not?: Asheville struggles to rename streets 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z However, he was also a slave owner, and the presence of his bust among the other objects highlights complexity and ambiguity of this period, the British Museum says. British Museum won't remove controversial objects 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z He is also a man who hacked off the head of a slave owner with a machete, which is to say few agree with his methods, even if they do agree with his cause. The Good Lord Bird is a timely reminder that Americans aren’t usually fans of progress 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The elder Harris did write that his paternal grandmother descended from a slave owner. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen last week 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z No compensation was paid to former slaves, but 20 million pounds, or about 40 percent of the government’s annual expenditure at the time, was set aside for former slave owners. Revealed: the darkness behind the beauty of Britain's great houses 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Formerly known as the Lewis Cass Building, after a former U.S. senator from Michigan and slave owner, the building will now be called the Elliott-Larsen Building. Michigan renames building to honor civil rights leaders 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Chancellor Mun Choi this summer refused to remove the Jefferson statue, prompting a student, Roman Leaphart, to begin a petition drive seeking removal of the monument to “a racist slave owner.” $20,000 acrylic case installed around Jefferson marker 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z In Albany, city officials ordered the removal of the statue of Philip Schuyler, because he was a slave owner. N.Y. Fire Department Replaces Name on Its Highest Award, Citing Racist Past 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Rosenthal added, “What is most likely is that she is descended from both enslaved people and from slave owners, just like most African Americans today.” NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen last week 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Washington, a slave owner and the country’s first president, has become the subject of discussion with committee recommending changing the Washington Monument and George Washington University considering changing the school’s name. DC committee recommends changes to Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, other historical assets in city 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z One City statue targeted for removal by a petition in June is a huge monument to William Beckford, twice Lord Mayor of London in the 1760s and the largest slave owner of his time. London financial district asks if it should remove statues linked to slavery 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z “Samuel Bard was a pretty significant slave owner by New York standards,” Professor Foner said. After 90 Years, Columbia Takes Slave Owner’s Name Off a Dorm 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Lee was a Confederate general, a slave owner and a commander in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Rethinking Who and What Get Memorialized 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Activists nationwide have resumed demanding the removal of statues and symbols that are considered racially offensive — such as of slave owners, Confederate leaders and the Confederate flag. How economic threats are a potent tool for changing people’s minds about the Confederate flag 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z A rendering of Pierre Menard, an early Illinois settler, politician and slave owner, also will be removed. Douglas’ statue to be removed from Illinois Capitol lawn 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, winner of the Times Book Prize in history, spent a decade on “They Were Her Property,” about women slave owners. A rebel slave died a hero, and was forgotten; a dramatic new history revives his legend 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z Clergy were also slave owners until the eve of the Civil War. Virginia churches reckon with history in slave trade 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Supreme Court chief justice and racist slave owner whose home today serves as Hillsborough’s Town Hall campus. North Carolina areas want to rename streets, neighborhoods 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z He was also the largest slave owner in late-1700s Albany County. Opinion | Don’t get too attached to your institution’s name. It’s only for now. 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Christina Bennett, an anti-abortion speaker, likened Tuesday’s move to an organization removing a slave owner’s name while their employees participate in human trafficking. Black pro-life leaders pan Planned Parenthood's Sanger disavowal: 'Like changing the name of Auschwitz' 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The statue of a 19th Century slave owner is to be removed from Cardiff's City Hall, where it is displayed in a gallery of "Welsh heroes". City to remove 'abhorrent' slave trader statue 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Setting aside Biden's assessment of Trump, his remark drew instant criticism, given the known histories of past presidents, a number of whom were slave owners. Biden campaign clarifies claim Trump ‘first’ racist president, after past slave owners noted 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z McCarthy also referenced pushes for various monuments to be removed, from those honoring Confederate figures to those memorializing America’s Founding Fathers such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who were slave owners. Rep. McCarthy identifies key issues to address in next coronavirus relief bill 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Does the fact that Gregory, who died in 1990 at age 86, created this public sculpture make it something more than a tribute to a Confederate officer and slave owner? Confederate statue becomes point of controversy in Louisiana 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Opponents of the Lee name said it was inappropriate for a school that is 80% Black to be named after a Confederate leader and slave owner. Louisiana high school gets new name amid racism outcries 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The column mentioned the obvious targets: Civil War generals, slave owners, but they also point out that the movement goes much further. Democrat Party may have a date with cancel culture, Princeton professors argue 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z McCarthy introduced his bill as Democrats pushed legislation to remove monuments to slave owners and those who supported slavery from the U.S. Top House Republican threatens to cut funding to states, cities that don't protect statues 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z It is also understandable why leaving up statues to memorialize slave owners does not sit well with other people. Opinion | We don’t need statues to know history 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Protesters have toppled the Duncan Plaza statue of McDonogh, a slave owner, tossing it into the shallow water along the Mississippi River’s bank. Confederate statue becomes point of controversy in Louisiana 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z “It was not the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners dining together at the table of brotherhood. It's quite the opposite,” continued Jones. 'Dukes of Hazzard' star Ben Jones on Confederate flag controversy, says it's 'a Southern symbol' not 'racist' 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z And it names the slave owners or their representatives. During the Civil War, the enslaved were given an especially odious job. The pay went to their owners. 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z He wrote an opinion that overturned the conviction of a slave owner for shooting in the back a slave who fled after refusing the owner’s orders. Workers removing statue of antebellum N.C. chief justice 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z "More than half are in The South, and it's not acceptable. No one should be protecting the legacies of confederate leaders and slave owners," Timberlake wrote. Justin Timberlake, a Tennessee native, says Confederate statues 'must be taken down' 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z In June, a small group of protesters removed a bust of McDonogh, a slave owner and educational philanthropist, and tossed it in the Mississippi River. Confederate statue becomes point of controversy in Louisiana 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass was not a slave owner, not a Confederate general, nor even a “white savior” abolitionist. Vandals deface Frederick Douglass statue in New York 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z He believes the Black anthem is a more “powerful and patriotic” song than America’s national anthem, which was written by a slave owner who made a painful reference to slavery in its little-known third stanza. ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ hymn ignites hope across nation 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin is known in part for a ruling in which he concluded the slave owner’s power over his slave was absolute. Workers removing statue of antebellum N.C. chief justice 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Polk was a slave owner and had brought enslaved people with him to the White House. On July Fourth, 40,000 Americans cheered a new landmark: the Washington Monument 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Washington and Jefferson, revered for being U.S. founding fathers, were slave owners. Trump attacks 'left-wing cultural revolution' in Mount Rushmore address 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Two of the former presidents depicted - George Washington and Thomas Jefferson - were slave owners. Trump to host Mount Rushmore event amid criticism 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z In Boston’s Faneuil Hall, the meeting place for colonial rebels built by a slave trader and slave owner, Kennedy examined several elements of the American creed. The July 4 speeches that helped define what America is — or what it should be 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Plus, he knows he needs to dig deeper into Jefferson’s role as a slave owner, as the Black Lives Matter movement forces Americans to re-examine the country’s past. From big cities to backyards, July 4 not usual blowout bash 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z “The whole Black Hills is sacred. For them to come and carve the presidents, slave owners who have no meaning to us, it was an insult.” Trump’s Mount Rushmore welcoming committee will include tribal protesters 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The agent or bounty hunter acting on behalf of the slave owners only needed to provide "oral testimony or affidavit." Tear down the statues of racist traitors — and raise monuments to heroes of Black resistance 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z We should not stop reading the Declaration of Independence or rename our capital city because Jefferson and Washington were slave owners. Opinion | Removing the Statues (T.R. and Others) 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Jackson’s record as a prolific slave owner and facilitator of the genocide of Native Americans in the 19th century should be kept top of mind. Column: Twilight of the hero statues of the Confederacy 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z At the same time, he said, it is liberating to publicly atone for his family’s past, and to be part of correcting how Lee, a slave owner with many racist beliefs, is remembered. When the Toppled Statue Is of Your Great-Great-Great-Grandfather 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Demonstrators said it was a way of scoring restitution for slave owners who were Episcopalian, the Washington Examiner reports. Christian figures, symbols targeted amid ongoing protests 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The new law, however, exempted members of Congress, and provided a loophole for slave owners like Washington and his wife Martha. Tear down the statues of racist traitors — and raise monuments to heroes of Black resistance 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z For now, Ritter said, he’s focused on pushing university leaders to change the names of other campus structures, including buildings named after former slave owners and segregationists. JMU leaders propose removing Confederate names from buildings 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z He enhanced democracy for white Americans, but he was also a slave owner and he inflicted great suffering on Native Americans including on the Trail of Tears. Opinion | Funny how Trump’s dislike for ‘losers’ doesn’t extend to Confederate generals 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z “That’s why, in addition to joining protests, people are also calling for the removal of statues of slave owners and other racist figures.” Mashable publishes video on how to ‘hypothetically take down a racist statue’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told “Outnumbered Overtime” that the tearing down of statues and monuments honoring Confederate soldiers, slave owners and other controversial historical figures “is a total violation of everything civil about us.” Huckabee: Erasing American history is 'dangerous,' can lead to a lost civilization 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Overriding state laws, the act empowered slave owners to cross state lines and "seize or arrest" any escaped slave. Tear down the statues of racist traitors — and raise monuments to heroes of Black resistance 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z Grant and Key were both slave owners at points in their lives. While Confederate statues come down, other symbols targeted 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Protesters have pointed to the fact that both former presidents were slave owners. John Oliver mocked Trump in 2017 for predicting removal of Washington, Jefferson statues 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Also Friday, anti-racism messages were sprayed on the sculpture of Revolutionary War figure and slave owner Nathaniel Rochester, the founder of Rochester, New York. Statues toppled throughout US in protests against racism 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z In Fort Bragg, a Northern California town named after Confederate Army general and slave owner Braxton Bragg, the City Council is considering changing the town’s name by adding a query on the November ballot. Christopher Columbus statue removed from San Francisco's Coit Tower 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Once again outwitting the slave owners, Judge managed to escape to the neighboring town of Greenland in the middle of the night. Tear down the statues of racist traitors — and raise monuments to heroes of Black resistance 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z He was among the 47,000 people who received compensation intended for slave owners when the British Empire abolished slavery in 1833. UK companies with historic slave ties fund minority programs 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Protesters on Saturday tore down a bust of a slave owner, who left part of his fortune to New Orleans’ schools, and threw it into the Mississippi River. Where have statues of Confederates, and other historical figures, been removed? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z He was also a slave owner who said slavery is a “moral depravity” and tried to reduce it. Recent Missouri editorials 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In that brief 12-year period, known as Reconstruction, a reign of terror was unleashed by Confederate veterans and former slave owners in a brazen effort to keep black people enslaved in all but name. Racial terror: 2,000 black Americans were lynched in Reconstruction era, report says 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The City Council of Fort Bragg, a small Northern California city named after Braxton Bragg, a Confederate Army general and slave owner, are pondering putting a town name change on the November ballot. Fort Bragg, a California city named for a Confederate general, considers changing its name 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z In Chicago, a statue of the first US President, George Washington, was spray-painted with the words "slave owner". Rayshard Brooks police shooting declared homicide 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Protesters watched as the Mississippi River swallowed a stone bust of a slave owner that they toppled from its spot in a New Orleans plaza. New Orleans protesters throw statue of slave owner into the Mississippi River 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Jefferson, after all, was a slave owner who fathered children with one of his slaves. Recent Missouri editorials 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The police have been like overseers, working for slave owners to control and discipline and punish slaves. American apartheid: This country still treats too many of its black citizens like slaves 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z That most of the men who drafted it were slave owners is a truth that was long ignored. Germany confronted its racist legacy. Britain and the US must do the same | Susan Neiman 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Along with Churchill, the Cenotaph war memorial and a statue of President George Washington, a slave owner, were boarded up for protection here on Friday. Winston Churchill statue is put in a protective box, as British culture wars sideline Nigel Farage and a John Cleese sitcom 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z He was the son of a slave owner and helped his father secure compensation when the practice was abolished. How many statues of black people are there? 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Along with Churchill, the Centotaph war memorial and a statue of President George Washington, a slave owner, were boarded up for protection here on Friday. Winston Churchill statue is put in a protective box, as British culture wars sideline Nigel Farage and John Cleese sitcom 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The police are our hired agents just as much as overseers were the agents of slave owners. American apartheid: This country still treats too many of its black citizens like slaves 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Unless we choose to celebrate their values, statues of slave owners belong in museums, not public streets. Germany confronted its racist legacy. Britain and the US must do the same | Susan Neiman 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Gladstone defended slave owners and sought compensation for them when slavery was abolished. Not set in stone: Statues fall as Europe reexamines its past 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Similarly, the slave owner Robert Milligan wasn’t scrubbed from history this week when his statue was removed by Tower Hamlets council. Toppling statues of bygone tyrants forces British people to face present-day racism | Owen Jones 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Gen. Leonidas Polk was a planter and slave owner before the war, but was killed during the Battle of Atlanta. These are the Army bases named for Confederates 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z All of my ancestors on my grandmother's side, past her grandmother and grandfather, had been slave owners. American apartheid: This country still treats too many of its black citizens like slaves 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Many of Glasgow's prominent city centre streets are named after 18th Century slave owners who made fortunes from plantations. The black British history you may not know about 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z It finished paying the bill for reparations to slave owners only five years ago. The Guardian view on Black Lives Matter worldwide: a common cause | Editorial 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The influence of former slave owners and Confederates contributed to erasing the rights that African Americans won in the 1860s including citizenship and the right to vote. US must confront its Original Sin to move forward 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z On Monday, she was criticized for claiming that the Second Amendment was created "to ensure Southern slave owners the right to maintain & arm slave patrols to put down insurrections amongst the enslaved." NYT Magazine reporter suggests destroying property 'is not violence' 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z But that is life - still, in 2020 - in a country whose founders declared 244 years ago that “all men are created equal” at the same time many of them were slave owners. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The work was so dangerous that some slave owners took out life insurance policies that reimbursed them for financial losses if their enslaved workers died. Slavery documents from Southern saltmakers shed light on dark history 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “We might go street-name-changing crazy around here to get rid of the names of these slave owners,” he called out to the angry crowd. The unlisted: how people without an address are stripped of their basic rights 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The student petition says Carroll was one of the largest slave owners in Maryland during his life. Towson student group: Rename buildings honoring slave owners 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Curious, she decided to trace her own lineage, where she was able to find her ancestors’ slave owners and trace her family line back to their Mississippi routes. Tracing the imprint of slavery in Marshall County 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Mouton, an Opelousas native of proud family lines in Lafayette, was a slave owner and a vigilante. Editorial Roundup: Louisiana 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z "Some slave owners took full advantage of the law," writes Mitros. New Jersey faultlines outline our nation’s enduring divides 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z That bailout to slave owners amounted to 40% of the country's national budget at the time, or £2.4bn in today's money. Breathing life into black British history 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “Why would I, as a black person, why would I want to live under the name of someone who was a slave owner?” Towson student group: Rename buildings honoring slave owners 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z A slave owner’s power over the slave, he concluded is absolute. Court portrait of writer of notorious slave ruling reviewed 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Bold Street is one of the more prominent examples, but many more roads in the city are named after slave owners, transporters or merchants - while a handful also celebrate those who fought against the trade. The slavers on Liverpool's streets 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Eventually, these recipes made their way to slave owners’ tables. Throw a Dish. Don’t Eat Lobster. What Are Your New Year’s Superstitions? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z In order to persuade slave owners, the government had to pay £20m in compensation for the loss of their "property". Breathing life into black British history 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The statues sought to rebrand the South’s secession as patriotic and Lee, a slave owner and Confederate general, as a reluctant war hero who selflessly served his home state. Two Virginia Democrats want to replace Lee statue in U.S. Capitol 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Although Ruffin also penned some much-admired decisions on commercial law, he’s best remembered as the author of one of the most infamous rulings on the rights of slave owners, Frye said. Court portrait of writer of notorious slave ruling reviewed 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Harvard in 2016 removed a slave owner’s family crest from the law school seal and dedicated a plaque to four slaves who lived and worked on campus. Reparations mark new front for US colleges tied to slavery 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z “I thought of my poor great grand mother who in slavery days could not do more or know more than to be used and abused by the slave owner,” she wrote in recounting the incident. ‘Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words’ shows a raw and sometimes uncertain civil rights giant 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z "This was a master and slave owner who genuinely felt anguish and felt betrayed that this young man wanted to be free of him." Breathing life into black British history 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “Wherever the old slave owners are, I hope that they look up and see the high-income, highly educated African American population who lives here now,” he says. Pride of place in Prince George’s County’s affordable, diverse Fairwood community 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Again, we don’t see much detail of these stunning feats, which earned Tubman the moniker “Moses” - furious slave owners assumed they were hunting a man. Review: Erivo engages in imperfect but important ‘Harriet’ 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z As a slave owner himself, Jefferson knew that slavery everywhere — including at his cherished college — led to violence against the enslaved, Taylor said. Two centuries ago, University of Virginia students beat and raped enslaved servants, historians say 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z I am also sorry he was a slave owner. Opinion | George Mason was a conflicted slave owner 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z My book clearly shows that in the earliest decades of the 19th century, there was also a problem with runaway slaves for slave owners and slavery proponents. Donald Trump's favorite president: Andrew Jackson as father of the "white republic" 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The roots of J’ouvert lie in mocking slave owners and celebrating emancipation in the Caribbean. Mocking Slave Owners and Celebrating Freedom 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z He had auditioned to play a slave owner in Barry Jenkins’s upcoming “Underground Railroad” series but was happy to instead land the part of a man who helps the protagonist escape slavery. How the same actor ended up playing Charles Manson in ‘Mindhunter’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z "People in non-slave areas - Britain and free US states - routinely did business with slave owners and slave commerce," says Gavin Wright, professor emeritus of economic history at Stanford University. The hidden links between slavery and Wall Street 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z And as for a retroactive attainder aimed at the descendants of slave owners, that one is pretty tricky, too. Trump ratings on economy start to slide 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Eight of the first 12 US presidents were slave owners. 400 years since slavery: a timeline of American history 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Arnautoff, who was a Communist, depicted Washington in a critical light, showing him as a slave owner and a leader of the nation that annihilated Native Americans. San Francisco school board may save George Washington murals 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Similar calculations could be made about slave owners. How Mosquitoes Changed Everything 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Some of the largest insurance firms in the US - New York Life, AIG and Aetna - sold policies that insured slave owners would be compensated if the slaves they owned were injured or killed. The hidden links between slavery and Wall Street 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z There may have been six or seven generations since the last legal slave owners, meaning more than 250 direct ancestors for a descendant alive today. Trump ratings on economy start to slide 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Today the number of descendants of slave owners runs in the tens of millions, encompassing people living throughout America, with political leanings that span the spectrum from right to left. Beto O'Rourke's ancestors were slaveholders, records reveal 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z "I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama. We both oppose reparations. We both are the descendants of slave owners," McConnell told reporters when confronted about his opposition to reparations. Mitch McConnell defends views on reparations by comparing himself to Barack Obama 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z McConnell told reporters: “I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama. We both oppose reparations. We both are the descendants of slave owners.” Mitch McConnell and slavery: A dark fable of America's past — and present 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Given that some of the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence were slave owners did these authors really believe what they wrote about equality and inalienable rights? Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z “I have an idea, why not have the southern states that participated in slavery pay for reparations and/or the descendants of the slave owners to split the cost?” Trump ratings on economy start to slide 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z These words were cruelly ironic coming from Jefferson, who was an unrepentant racist and a slave owner — more on that in a moment. Fourth of July's ugly truth exposed: The Declaration of Independence is sexist, racist, prejudiced 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z As a slave owner, he may not have lived his ideals. Saving Thomas Jefferson’s soul 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The school was founded by William Marsh Rice, a businessman and a slave owner. Rice to launch task force on its segregationist history 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Needing illumination is that many slave owners, cognizant of their disintegrating economic prospects, were forced nearly at gunpoint by Union armies to free their slaves even after the 13th Amendment. Juneteenth in Seattle brings jubilation and reflection on justice not yet realized 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z That means one person could be a lineal descendant of a slave owner but share less than 1 percent of their DNA with that person. Trump ratings on economy start to slide 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Beatings and hangings were inflicted by greedy slave owners out of self interest, or for no reason at all. Next American milestone must be protection of the preborn 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z There were slave owners who favored abolition and abolitionists who just wanted to get rid of black people. The birthplace of American slavery debated abolishing it after Nat Turner’s bloody revolt 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z It was a process more considerate of slave owners than slaves, compensating the former rather than the latter, but it freed slaves and outlawed slavery. Rebecca Solnit: 'Every protest shifts the world's balance' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Before commanding the Confederate States Army in the Civil War, Lee, a slave owner, did describe slavery as an “evil” in an 1856 letter to his wife. Trump campaign embraces groups trying to court minority voters – one with false pitches 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Jackson, the nation’s seventh commander in chief, was a slave owner. Harriet Tubman is already appearing on $20 bills whether Trump officials like it or not 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Tubman's photo was due to replace that of former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner, on the front of the note. New US $20 bill with Harriet Tubman delayed 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Two social studies teachers in a different Tennessee district resigned earlier this year after an uproar over an assignment that asked students to pretend to be slave owners and brainstorm expectations for their slaves. McFadden School of Excellence will no longer have student portray Adolf Hitler after Nazi salutes 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The grounds also feature statues of slave owners and a monument honoring the “father of gynecology,” who performed experiments on enslaved women. 8 S. Carolina counties to observe Confederate Memorial Day 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z In the antebellum South, slave owners referred to the Ephesians verse that said, “Slaves, obey your masters.” Opinion | Religion and morality are inextricably linked 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z Some preachers encouraged slave owners to allow their slaves to attend worship services — though only in separate gatherings led by white proslavery preachers. The Bible was used to justify slavery. Then Africans made it their path to freedom. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson probably falls into this category with other slave owners who forced black people of all ages to reproduce. All prisoners must be able to vote, no matter what their crime | Derecka Purnell 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 didn’t just bring an end to chattel slavery, it also compensated Britain’s 46,000 slave owners for the loss of their “property”. How Scotland erased Guyana from its past 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z It is an astounding play with only one fault: It fails to mention that Henry, Emanuel and Mayer Lehman were slave owners. Opinion | The hole at the heart of ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Honored there are two slave owners — George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — and two who thought black people were inherently inferior and should be freed to be returned to Africa — Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Opinion | Despite scandals, Virginia’s leaders should remain in office 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Their research upends the conventional wisdom that slave owners struggled after they lost access to their wealth. What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z One February assignment asked students to pretend to be slave owners and brainstorm expectations for their slaves. Tennessee school system to change its language about slavery 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z One February assignment asked students to pretend to be slave owners and brainstorm expectations for their slaves. Tennessee school system to change its language about slavery 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Three centuries later, Dr. Christian asked the community’s opinion about the dining hall and five residence halls that were namesakes of slave owners. Slave Owners’ Names Are on Dorms at a SUNY School. That’s Changing. 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z The republic was founded by slave owners, a hypocrisy called out by Samuel Johnson: “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” Paths from the past: historians make sense of Brexit and our current political turmoil 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z But by 1880, the sons of slave owners were better off than the sons of nearby Southern whites who started with equal wealth but were not as invested in enslaved people. What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Ibebunjo said it was hard to change the culture on the campus when student halls are named after slave owners. ‘Pick My Cotton’: Video of Mock Whipping Prompts Fraternity to Expel 4 Students 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The book is primarily a biography of Elizabeth L. Van Lew, a well-known Richmond society figure and daughter of prominent slave owners. A freed slave became a spy. Then she took down the Confederate White House. 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z “For years, Papa Renty’s slave owners profited from his suffering – it’s time for Harvard to stop doing the same thing to our family,” Lanier said in a statement. Harvard profited from slave photos that belong to descendants, lawsuit says 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z "For years, Papa Renty's slave owners profited from his suffering — it's time for Harvard to stop doing the same thing to our family," Lanier said in a statement. Lawsuit: Harvard 'shamelessly' profits from photos of slaves 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Methods evolve, and academics and genealogists unearth and digitize new data, such as the 1860 Census and federal records that help identify slaves and slave owners. What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Benjamin Grayson Orr was a D.C. mayor in the 19th century and a slave owner. Should D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson High change its name? 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z In Antebellum-era writings by former slave owners, they would often describe their relationship with slaves as a friendship. For some, the ‘black friend’ defense is a tired racial trope 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The Texas Republic wasn’t just shaped by Stephen Austin and Sam Houston — both slave owners — but by Jacksons. Border fence threatens family burial ground — and a slice of African American history 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The black friend as a buffer dates to the days of slave owners painting a false narrative that they were beloved by the African-Americans they subjugated. The ‘Some of My Best Friends Are Black’ Defense 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z But by 1880, the sons of slave owners were back atop the Southern socioeconomic hierarchy. What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z In Reed’s play, Hamilton is unmasked as a slave owner who once worked for a slave trading firm in St. Croix. Historians irked by musical ‘Hamilton’ escalate their duel 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z "We are being given words of reassurance, but what we need is firm action against the modern slave owners who evade taxes and exploit vulnerable workers," said chair Brian Madderson. MPs warn over hand car wash exploitation 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z It was built from fear and racism and named after a slave owner who, according to historical accounts, beat four black boys even after their legal emancipation. Perspective | Not far from the White House stands another wall, one that divided blacks from whites 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The inquisitors in Spain defined race by blood, as did Southern slave owners and Nazi eugenicists. The History of Blood 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The success of slave owners’ sons after emancipation hints that reducing wealth inequality isn’t just a matter of redistributing wealth, Boustan said. What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Reed, who has not seen “Hamilton” but read it, criticizes the musical as just the latest piece of entertainment that is sympathetic to slave owners. Historians irked by musical ‘Hamilton’ escalate their duel 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z But he was also a slave owner, and he impregnated an enslaved black woman named Georgeanna, who gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth. Review | A mixed-race woman’s long quest to prove her Native American ancestry 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z A slave owner, he was an outspoken white supremacist, famous for his moral defense of slavery as “a positive good” that civilized the enslaved and improved their enslavers. Review | The great triumvirate of antebellum politics: Clay, Calhoun and Webster 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z My grandmother grew up on a farm, and from the way she talked about the African Americans who worked on the farm in her childhood, I always wondered if we were descended from slave owners. After gut punch from genealogical research, reparations 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Republican leaders are acting precisely as Democratic slave owners did before the civil war, when they saw a growing majority turn against them. Thursday US briefing: Sessions exit raises fears for Mueller inquiry 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z In this situation, Republican leaders are acting precisely as Democratic slave owners did before the civil war, when they saw a growing majority turn against them. America's descent into total oligarchy was stopped. For now | Heather Cox Richardson 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z So dangerous were the Republicans, slave owners told their voters, that, despite Lincoln’s assurances that he had no intention of interfering with slavery, his election would be grounds to destroy the Union. When Trump demonises opponents, unhinged partisans take their cues | Heather Cox Richardson 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Many of the most prominent street names in Glasgow's city centre are named after 18th Century slave owners who made their fortunes on tobacco plantations. 'Glasgow should own up to its dark secret' 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Clinton complained that she’s recently been compared to “slave owners and Nazis” for her comments about abortion. Chelsea Clinton: ‘Unchristian’ to end legal abortion 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Isaac, who is known as Bain and grew up in Grenada, said that slave owners would refer to slaves as devils. You Can’t Keep the Jab Jab Down: J’Ouvert Dancers, Smeared in Motor Oil, Feel the Rhythm 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Miller, clearly upset about being likened to a slave owner, said he does not intervene in politics the way people assume he does. His top lieutenants lost their jobs. So Senate President Mike Miller dug in. 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In the 1830s, the rapid growth of the north threatened to overwhelm the power of southern slave owners in the federal government. When Trump demonises opponents, unhinged partisans take their cues | Heather Cox Richardson 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z “In Rwanda genocide was often justified, calling them cockroaches, slave owners considered slaves subhuman animals.” “Morning Joe”: Trump’s dehumanization of Omarosa as a “dog” is right out of the Nazi pl... 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z But ignoring the misdeeds of Confederate leaders — seeing Jefferson Davis the statesman without seeing Jefferson Davis the slave owner — is not a luxury available to black people. Talking to a Man Named Mr. Cotton About Slavery and Confederate Monuments 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z “It’s what slave owners did. It’s not what Americans do.” Why is CNN mainstreaming a right-wing radio host who promotes violent, extreme rhetoric? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z In doing so, they joined several other state Democratic parties in dropping the names of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson due to their histories as slave owners. Democratic Party dinner renamed again 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The man who owned the family sold infant Mary White to slave owner Wash Mopkin. Unraveling the hidden Black history of Appalachian activism 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Records show that Fitzgerald was a slave owner, said Joel Horowitz, local history and special collections librarian at Alexandria’s Barrett Library. Battle over park name shows that history is never the past in Alexandria 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z His grandparents on both sides were slave owners. How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Student groups had voiced opposition to Eppes statue because he was a slave owner. Florida university moves statue of Jefferson’s grandson 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Physicians and slave owners therefore believed that when slaves claimed to be hurt, they were probably lying. The shameful way race affects treatment of pain and drug addiction 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z “Some slave owners took full advantage of the law,” writes Mitros. American history is all around us: Here’s why we must not lose the thread 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z And if it was more opportunistic than redemptive, it was still no small achievement for a large-scale slave owner. Perspective | The father of our country didn’t always know best. But he learned and changed. 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Attorney General Jeff Sessions for using the same bible passage to justify separating migrant children from their parents as slave owners used to justify slavery. Gillum: Sessions cited bible verse used to justify slavery 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Stuart was a slave owner and a prominent Confederate cavalry commander. Officials could rename Virginia school after Obama 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z We started a whole new organization of the descendants of slaves and the descendants of slave owners. ‘She Was Part of This Family’: Jefferson Descendants Reflect on Sally Hemings Exhibit 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z You can judge him morally as a slave owner and as a man, but the controversy is over. Monticello recognizes the rest of Jefferson’s children 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z When other arguments against slavery fell on deaf ears and stone hearts, abolitionists pointed to how the “peculiar institution” harmed the souls of slave owners themselves. Opinion | Our immigration policy makes monsters of Americans 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z He became a slave owner when he married into his wife’s slave-owning family, the Livingstons. Perspective | Naming rights — and wrongs: Montgomery students reveal uncomfortable truths 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The conundrum is that one man, Thomas Hart Benton, was a former slave owner and the other, Francis Preston Blair, Jr., an outspoken racist. Missouri Senate votes to send Harry Truman back to DC 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Being a slave owner, no matter how you cut it, that’s a crime against humanity. ‘She Was Part of This Family’: Jefferson Descendants Reflect on Sally Hemings Exhibit 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z They are descendants of a white Boone County slave owner - also named Henry Corbin - who had property in Union and impregnated many of the black slaves. Woman digs through history, reflects on ancestor’s lynching 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z When the predominantly black student body at Orr Elementary discovered the school was named for a slave owner, they decided it was time for a change. This D.C. school was named for a mayor and slave owner. Not anymore. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z And across Britain, heritage plaques on Georgian townhouses euphemistically describe former slave traders and slave owners as West Indies merchants or planters. British Citizen One Day, Illegal Immigrant the Next 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z “It was so subtle the foremen and slave owners missed it,” Anderson said. Minister aims to keep memory of spirituals alive 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Danes’ long-ago status as slave owners and colonial masters rarely appears as a theme in mainstream culture. Iceland’s 1st Black Citizen? An Ex-Slave and War Hero Denmark Now Disregards 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z The book acknowledges the role of Jews as slave owners and their complicity with the owners of Southern cotton plantations. Jews, Latinos and the Making of Modern New York 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Orr students and parents realized the school’s name honored Benjamin Grayson Orr, a D.C. mayor in the 19th century — and slave owner. This D.C. school was named for a mayor and slave owner. Not anymore. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Benton had been a slave owner but came to see the institution as repugnant and harmful. Recent Missouri editorials 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z He explained that since slave owners forbade the use of drumming or dancing, slaves sang a cappella, and musical accompaniment was a later addition. Minister aims to keep memory of spirituals alive 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z The rebels also showed remarkable discipline, imprisoning slave owners on their estates without physically harming them. When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Today’s visitors to Monticello often ask, “Was Jefferson a good slave owner?” Opinion | Revisiting Jefferson’s history as a slave owner 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z His mother was an enslaved black woman, whom he could barely remember, and his father was a white man — perhaps a slave owner. Frederick Douglass needed to see Lincoln. Would the president meet with a former slave? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z The builder had told Powell that Rose Carter was a slave owner who had built the nearby Cartersville Baptist Church as a place for free and enslaved blacks to worship. Poised to make history, Justin Fairfax got a powerful reminder of his own heritage 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z It would be the last known time slave owners sailed an African slave ship to the U.S. The Last Ship to Bring Slaves to the U.S. May Have Been Found 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z In September 1835, less than a month after the government received its loan, slave owners began their feeding frenzy as they obtained compensation cheques at the National Debt Office. When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Did Jefferson think of himself as a “good” slave owner? Opinion | Revisiting Jefferson’s history as a slave owner 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Officials of the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation are recognizing the holiday for the first time and plan to openly address the tribe’s history as slave owners. Poverty, past linked to Native Americans focus on MLK Day 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z She mentioned the slave owner’s grave, but the church members corrected her. Poised to make history, Justin Fairfax got a powerful reminder of his own heritage 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z It is simply a controlling mechanism created by slave owners. How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z In addition to money, slave owners received another form of compensation: the guaranteed free labour of blacks on plantations for a period of years after emancipation. When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Because slave owners resented the accelerating, biracial agitation in the city for abolition. Working for more than two centuries to ease the racial sins of the nation’s capital 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were both U.S. founders and slave owners. Sexual abuse, racism, violence — our heroes are sometimes also bad 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z What makes me furious, however, is that the three million voters who would have given the presidency to Clinton were essentially disenfranchised by a constitutional provision written to benifit slave owners. Opinion | Let the People Pick the President 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z A group of about 50 people, black and white, stood in front of an archetypal southern Gothic home, chatting amiably about slave owners and slaves. 'This is surreal': descendants of slaves and slaveowners meet on US plantation 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Apprentices accused of laziness – what slave owners called the “negro disease” – were hung by their hands from a plank and forced to “dance” the treadmill barefoot, often for hours. When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means somebody else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. Dee Rees gave 'Mudbound' a personal touch with the help of her grandmother's journal 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Had the nation – whose founding fathers were slave owners, and where today African Americans are incarcerated at more than five times the rate of whites – truly changed? Ta-Nehisi Coates: the laureate of black lives 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z And in mid-September, protesters at the University of Virginia draped a black shroud over a statue of university founder Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner they accused of racism. Debates, protests increase over universities’ slavery ties 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z She was right: where but in a dream would stand-ins for slave owners and slaves gather in the middle of nowhere, just to chat? 'This is surreal': descendants of slaves and slaveowners meet on US plantation 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Britain stood out among European states in its willingness to appease slave owners, and to burden future generations of its citizens with the responsibility of paying for it. When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z For most of the republic’s lifespan, from 1791 to 2008, those commas and clauses were debated by attorneys and senators, slave owners and freedmen, judges, Black Panthers, governors and lobbyists. The right to bear arms: what does the second amendment really mean? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z This is similar to how Haiti, after the revolt of 1804 that led to independence, had to pay an indemnity to France to compensate former French slave owners for their financial losses. Opinion | The Debate That Goes Nowhere 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z University president Teresa Sullivan condemned the protesters’ action while acknowledging Jefferson’s faults: “In apparent contradiction to his persuasive arguments for liberty and human rights, however, he was also a slave owner.” Debates, protests increase over universities’ slavery ties 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Yet these were actual descendants of Prospect Hill’s original slave owners and slaves, gathered for the first of a series of reunion events held between November 2011 and April 2017. 'This is surreal': descendants of slaves and slaveowners meet on US plantation 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The faction presented “compensated emancipation”, or the payment of money to slave owners at abolition, as a way of upholding property rights. When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z |
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