| 单词 | slaveholder |
| 例句 | Tensions between slaveholders and abolitionists kept growing, and by mid-January 1861, five slaveholding states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia—had seceded from the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Someday, he would be the slaveholder, responsible in his own right for what happened to the people who lived in those half-hidden cabins. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I’d heard stories, though, about other slaveholders who didn’t care what they did. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Smith told the women that Harriet Powell was a slave from Mississippi who had recently escaped while in Syracuse with the slaveholder. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Two farmers, whose landholdings were small when compared to the great areas controlled by some of the Virginia slaveholders, were outspoken in their criticism of the institution of slavery. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man named John Smith Pleasants inherited Mourning and her husband, George, from his father, one of the first slaveholders in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But, by this time, I began to want to live upon free land as well as with Freeland; and I was no longer content, therefore, to live with him or any other slaveholder. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z But scientific experimentation is manual labor, from which the slaveholders are preferentially distanced; while it is only the slaveholders—politely called “gentle-men” in some societies—who have the leisure to do science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Strict separation of the races would have threatened slaveholders’ immediate interests and was, in any event, wholly unnecessary as a means of creating social distance or establishing the inferior status of slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The slaveholders lived in dread because the most faithful house slave might at any moment become another Nat, attacking the master, in the dead of night, with no warning. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Jamaica had already seen many slave revolts, Trelawney Town in Jamaica shows how threatening the Haitian revolt was to slaveholders everywhere. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The order left both sides unhappy: Northern abolitionists were dissatisfied because the Emancipation Proclamation did not outlaw slavery everywhere; Southern slaveholders were enraged because it freed millions of slaves living in their states. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Shepherds and farmers throughout history showed affection for their animals and have taken great care of them, just as many slaveholders felt affection and concern for their slaves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I had heard of slaveholders doing such things. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Most important to me, though, they gave me a chance to preserve a little of 1976 amid the slaves and slaveholders. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The next day, Elizabeth trembled when the slaveholder and marshals from Syracuse arrived at the Smith home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In 1867, Andrew Johnson, the nation’s first post-Civil War president and a former slaveholder, advocated a new practice that quickly replaced slavery as a main source of agricultural labor in the South. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Abolitionist Benjamin Franklin and slaveholder George Washington not only exemplify two strains of the American idea, but also collaborated for decades on its implementation. The 10 books to read in February 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z She was a baby when Jefferson inherited the Hemings family from his father-in-law, a major slaveholder. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Their grave markers have vanished, and the most prominent monument there now is a plain stone tomb for George Hibbert, a slaveholder at Jamaica sugar plantations. Antiques: Antiques - Khadambi Asalache’s London House Restored 2012-05-31T21:21:28Z For months — in some cases, for years — the actors had been working on roles as slaves, slaveholders and slave traders in a musical called “Amazing Grace.” The Cast of ‘Amazing Grace’ Grapples With Slavery 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Patrick Henry said he “smelt a rat” when he noted, as Wilentz explains, the “absence in the Constitution of any categorical guarantee to the slaveholders of their rights to property in man.” Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “Because of the way you called Jefferson a dehumanizing slaveholder, better known as the godfather of black oppression!” he said with a laugh. “That white men might roll in ease”: I feel like the first real American in my family, which has been here for centuries 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Northern legislatures, for their part, passed “personal liberty” laws to make it harder for slaveholders to recover their runaways. How Fugitive Slaves Exposed the Idea of the ‘United’ States as a Lie 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Brown regarded all conventional politics, including antislavery politics practiced by the likes of Abraham Lincoln, as a sham, as dangerous to the cause of liberty as the power of the slaveholders. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The authors of the antislavery tract were invested in making slaveholders appear as foul and morally bankrupt as they could, and one easy way to signal that was with obscene language. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z As they worked, the blue flag of the 115th Virginia Military blew in the wind above them, its motto an ironic appropriation of another Virginia slaveholder’s dramatic call, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z “That was Jefferson’s image of himself, as a benevolent slaveholder,” she said. Henry Wiencek’s ‘Master of the Mountain’ Irks Historians 2012-11-26T22:31:39Z The two men, the former slaveholder and the former slave, are forced by violent circumstances to form an uneasy alliance in order to survive. Television: Common Stars in AMC?s ?Hell on Wheels? 2011-10-23T05:06:36Z About one-third of the white population were slaveholders. 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 “Expulsion,” he writes, “was the war the slaveholders won.” ‘Unworthy Republic’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Indian Removal in the 1830s 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Jefferson indicted the “tyranny” of slavery while also supplying fellow slaveholders with a batch of prejudices to justify slavery’s rapid expansion. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z A cynic might suggest that there was no lesson learned: economics were on the side of slaveholders at the start and are now on the side of putting blacks at the helm. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z However, she describes some of the subtle and not-so-subtle methods that white slaveholders, even including the libertarian Madison, used to dehumanize their "property." 'A Slave in the White House': attending a president 2012-01-18T21:17:04Z This is still a country where there are more monuments to slaveholders than there are to the freeing of slaves. No, Democrats aren’t launching a civil war on July 4. But could it happen here again? 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z As a slaveholder, Ms. Pryor showed, Lee was a cruel master, once forcing a runaway slave to endure 50 lashes and then have brine poured on the wounds. Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Biographer of Clara Barton and Robert E. Lee, Dies at 64 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Through escapes, volunteering for military service, political organization and education, blacks refuted slaveholders’ ideology and changed the war, but met a brutal response afterward. The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z But Jacobs’s literary disappearance was also emblematic of another prejudice: For most of American history, it was the perspective of slaveholders rather than enslaved African-Americans that historians treated as a credible source. What We Can Learn From Women Who Break the Rules 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Princeton’s heavily Southern antebellum student body — and its desire to keep the sons of slaveholders comfortable — may have set it apart. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z In 1845, Daniel Walls, a North Carolina slaveholder, died, leaving his slaves and plantation to his wife, Jane, and their four children. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Eventually, I realized that precious few of the people I wanted to interview about the techniques that my ancestors had used skillfully in big-house kitchens and had applied creatively to slaveholders’ rations were still living. Black recipes matter, too: Why I wanted to break the Jemima code 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z According to the collection of slave narratives at the National Humanities Center, lucky enslaved Africans engaged in ". . . after-work gatherings, Saturday rest and games, and Sunday church-going with their slaveholders." DJ D-Nice's virtual dance parties follow the tradition of innovation in times of adversity 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z In the 1850s and 1860s there were newspaper articles by slaveholders which talked about a "war between the races" that is going to naturally erupt if the slaves are free. 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 So Miles has relied on the wills, letters and account ledgers of slaveholders. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z But inside the campus gates, the university was maintained as a safe space for the sons of slaveholders. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z He used his winnings from a 1799 lottery to buy his freedom; later he founded the African Methodist Church in Charleston and led a famous rebellion against slaveholders in 1822. Mama Was a Numbers Runner 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Ten of America’s first 12 presidents were slaveholders, as were two of the nation’s earliest chief justices. Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Previous generations of Americans clashed even more drastically: slaveholders and abolitionists, segregationists and civil-rights marchers, unionists and employers. Obama and the Collapse of Our Common American Language 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Kidnapped Africans needed to be “fattened up” before being loaded onto ships, so slaveholders could “protect their investment,” Mr. Mbaye explained to about 30 guests in January. In Majority-Black New Orleans, Chefs Are Rewriting ‘Whitewashed’ History 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Shackles and an Auction Block Exhibition text for the shackles reminds visitors that, “Like many other slaveholders, Jefferson owned his own children.” The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z At the close of his First Inaugural Address, President Abraham Lincoln entreated the seceding slaveholders to “swell the chorus of the Union” until the nation was touched “by the better angels of our nature.” A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z According to our reviewer, Gordon S. Wood, Oakes has written, through this detailed chronology of the political struggle between Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders in Congress, a “very solid, carefully and rigorously argued book.” New in Paperback: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them’ and ‘The Five Wounds’ 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Certainly his question, “Who makes the game?” recalls the slaveholder’s delusion that they alone created the enormous wealth they enjoyed. Donald Sterling’s disgusting 1 percent ramblings: Let’s pity the racist billionaire 2014-04-28T12:05:00Z So fearful were the Southern slaveholders of Lincoln and the Republicans that simply his election as president in November 1860 precipitated the immediate secession of many slave states. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z For five years, Lincoln had been working to build an antislavery political coalition across the North that would finally break the Southern slaveholders’ domination of the government. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z In real life: Brown’s letters, in which he described his vision for a post-slavery America in eloquent and spiritual terms, were hugely influential in accelerating the abolition movement and putting slaveholders on the defensive. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Dear Amy: I am a retired college professor who did years of research about American slavery and slaveholders. Perspective | Ask Amy: Professor wants to be rid of racist books 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z While some Jews stood with abolitionists, others were slaveholders. A New Showcase for the Story of Jews in the South 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z In 1849, a white Louisiana slaveholder and preacher, William King, freed his slaves and journeyed with them to Ontario, where he bought hundreds of acres of land. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and documentarian Ken Burns both found out in another episode this season that in the 19th century, their family lines contained slaveholders. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Unlike Davis, Lincoln never believed that the Constitution had been broken, even after the slaveholders began their rebellion in 1860-61. Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The defendants included prominent slaveholders, among them priests belonging to the Jesuit order, which happened to hold some of the largest plantations in the United States. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Walker’s ultimatum for slaveholders: Give us freedom and rights, or you will “curse the day that you ever were born!” A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The rebellion was crushed, and its clearest outcome was the terrified slaveholders’ reaction: the Negro Act of 1740, which restricted the assembly of slaves and their use of instruments helpful in gathering groups, notably drums. Review: The Body Is Also a Percussive Instrument 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Waring, born in 1880, was a Charleston patrician whose ancestors were slaveholders and whose father was a Confederate soldier. The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z I mean, time after time, slaveholders are saying they prefer black labor because they can brutalize them and bend them to their will. 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 While Indigenous enslavement was never legal, slaveholders stubbornly resisted federal and state efforts to stop it. A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z In 2006, Laura Miller wrote for the Book Review about “The Amalgamation Polka,” Wright’s novel about the descendant of both ardent abolitionists and unwavering slaveholders. Revisiting Stephen Wright and Historical Fiction 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z He added, more seriously, “We as Americans have to take responsibility for our past, even if most of us in the country today are not descendants of slaveholders.” Writing the Play His Curiosity Led Him To 2011-01-27T23:00:09Z Both spaces will be the first such commemorations on a campus dotted with statues and other physical markers honoring slaveholders, a university spokesman confirmed. Princeton to Name Two Campus Spaces in Honor of Slaves 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z And Key’s roots in Maryland and his legacy as a slaveholder overshadowed Civil War battles about the “Banner,” as both the North and South fought for the right to the anthem. Colin Kaepernick and the Radical Uses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z And, while I am not descended from slaveholders, I have enjoyed white privilege in ways both visible and invisible to me. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z “The Art of Power” takes less note of how self-evidently Jefferson’s personal life as a slaveholder violated his principled talk of liberty. Books of The Times: ‘Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,’ by Jon Meacham 2012-11-20T22:57:50Z Many of them stated their fathers would never vote for slaveholders or having anything to do with slaveholders. 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 Today, almost everyone in the country shares a few dozen last names — Rolle, Nixon, Wells — inherited from British slaveholders. Off the Tourist Grid in the Bahamas 2013-01-30T22:27:14Z Historians think that Nat Turner, a minister and enslaved field hand, was holding it when he was captured two months after leading a rebellion against slaveholders in Southampton County, Va. As Nat Turner led a bloody slave rebellion, he carried this bible 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Malbone was jobless and seven years older than Miss Schenck; she warned him that her relatives, prosperous landowners and slaveholders of Dutch descent, would consider him “low company.” Letters From a Secret Courtship in 19th-Century Brooklyn Evoke a Jane Austen Plot 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z One doubts, however, that the first four presidents — three of whom were slaveholders — would be “pleased” to see this, as Ricks suggests. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Charleston was the fourth largest city in America, but fully half of its citizens were enslaved, and the slaveholders were fearful of a revolt. The Newish Charleston 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z This counterrevolutionary spirit, Mr. Robin argues, animates every conservative, from the Southern slaveholders to Ayn Rand to Antonin Scalia, to name just a few of the figures he pulls into his often slashing analysis. Corey Robin?s ?Reactionary Mind? Stirs Internet Debate 2012-01-18T23:05:28Z Southern slaveholders accused Northerners who opposed slavery of fomenting sedition and insurrection. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Certainly his question, “Who makes the game?” recalls the slaveholders’ delusion that they alone created the enormous wealth they enjoyed. Donald Sterling’s disgusting 1 percent ramblings: Let’s pity the racist billionaire 2014-04-28T12:05:00Z In part, Delbanco argues, the runaways were a continuing symbolic insult to the slaveholders’ honor, as their flight contradicted Southern claims that slavery was a benevolent, paternalist institution. How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Her life centered in Dorchester County, where slaveholders shuttled a young Tubman between work in fields, waterways, yards and homes, often separated from her family. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z The university’s president, James Carnahan, a onetime slaveholder, published a letter denying that the attacker was a Princeton student or that any actual violence had occurred, and blaming Wright for the disturbance. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Three decades later, when the Lincoln administration threatened slaveholders, the Cherokee Nation signed allegiance with the Confederacy. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z Part of my Texas grandfather’s family had come there from Alabama and I’m sure that if I dug deep enough into the genealogy, I would find Confederate veterans and very possibly slaveholders. I don’t know much, but I know why black lives matter 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z The Southern Baptist denomination was formed in 1845 when Baptists split over a question of slaveholders as missionaries. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z In 1850, responding to slaveholders’ outcries, Congress passed a Fugitive Slave Act that strengthened the federal mandate for arresting and returning escapees. How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z But he was also a slaveholder and an outspoken opponent of abolition. Book review: ‘What So Proudly We Hailed,’ by Marc Leepson Some of the earliest presidents represented — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson — were slaveholders; Mrs. Obama’s great-great grandparents were slaves. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z When the war instead continued, Adolf Hitler again succeeded in persuading the Germans that the responsibility for prolonging it lay with the English “plutocrats and slaveholders”. Fate and furies 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Two years ago, the museum relocated a bust of its founder, Hans Sloane, a slaveholder, to a vitrine exploring Britain and slavery. For U.S. Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z On Jan. 24, Case Antiques Auctions & Appraisals in Knoxville, Tenn., will offer other Greene museum material related to the Columbus area, including 19th-century portraits of slaveholders and cloth dolls depicting black people. Recalling Blind Tom, an Autistic Pianist Born to Slavery 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Denison had enticed many of the men from the estates of British slaveholders in Canada. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z I studied the way 18th-century Caribbean slaves hacked down mahogany groves and floated the harvested logs through waters infested with sharks so that New England cabinetmakers could help American slaveholders get comfortable in glossy armchairs. Magnificent Obsessions: Pursuits of a Lifetime 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z In 1852, California passed a fugitive slave law — rare among free states — that allowed slaveholders to use violence to capture enslaved people who had fled to the Golden State. Most Californians want reparations for slavery, but don’t want to pay cash. Now what? 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z In some areas, slaveholders also distributed tainted Bibles that removed mentions of freedom and equality. How far-right Christianity quietly fueled the Jacksonville shooting 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z McCrear was separated from her mother at a young age and tried to escape from a slaveholder when she was 3 years old. New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ship to US and its survivors 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Americans have had emotionally charged disputes over taking down statues of slaveholders in the South. The Dutch king will deliver a speech at an event on the anniversary of slavery’s end in its colonies 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z She can trace her lineage on her white mother’s side back for generations and generations, including to a white slaveholder. Tacoma author blends fantasy into contemporary debut young adult novel 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z An investigation by Reuters released Tuesday into the genealogies of “America’s political elite” found that President Joseph R. Biden and all former presidents still alive are direct descendants of slaveholders. All living U.S. presidents except Trump have at least one slaveholding ancestor 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z To give them energy and dull their pain, slaveholders often gave them shots of rum, a plentiful beverage on a sugar plantation. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z What do these passages reveal about the conduct of slaveholders? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Was Thomas Jefferson a great democratic innovator and statesman even though he was a slaveholder — and can those ideas be reconciled? Opinion: Why it matters that Johnny doesn't know history 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z In the 1840s and 1850s, it was with questions over whether fugitive enslaved people in free states remained the property of slaveholders. Next abortion battles may be among states with clashing laws 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The report also determined that at least 100 members of Congress, 11 sitting governors, and two Supreme Court justices are descended from slaveholders. All living U.S. presidents except Trump have at least one slaveholding ancestor 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Because infant mortality among enslaved people in the Caribbean was rampant, the enslaved population was not self-reproducing, and slaveholders had to buy more people each year to maintain their labor force. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Manumission was made official before a Roman magistrate or in a slaveholder’s will. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In the early 1800s, the town’s Afro-Colombian population was enslaved and forced to work through December, attending to slaveholders’ holiday festivities. Why This Town Has Celebrated Christmas in February for Nearly 200 Years 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Thirty-four of the 47 men depicted were slaveholders. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? The only living president not descended from slaveholders is the Republican Trump, whose mother Mary MacLeod was born in Scotland and married Frederick Trump, the son of a German immigrant. All living U.S. presidents except Trump have at least one slaveholding ancestor 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Enslaved people also resisted the slaveholders’ efforts to exploit them in numerous ways. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Many did go on to become independently wealthy professionals in trade, agriculture, and education, and some were even slaveholders themselves. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z A Marylander and former slaveholder, he was six feet tall and had a drooping, worn facial expression and tobacco-stained teeth. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z But the portrait of speaker John Bell, a Tennessee slaveholder who supported the Confederacy, still hangs. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? Americans have had emotionally charged fights over taking down statues of slaveholders in the South. Caribbean divided as Netherlands mulls slavery apology 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z On several occasions, enslaved people rose up in armed rebellion, killing the slaveholders and overseers. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Still, enslaved people in any context were a moment away from punishment by slaveholders, who were perpetually concerned with avoiding conspiracy and rebellion. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Evidence of this was abundant: Every American president, except for the two Adamses, had been either a slaveholder or a pro-slavery sympathizer, and two-thirds of Supreme Court justices had been slaveholders. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Marshall also was a slaveholder, perhaps adding a special poignancy to Jackson taking her place in his onetime possession. Jackson set to make Supreme Court debut in brief ceremony 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z How better to impress White Southerners than to become slaveholders themselves? ‘World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Constitution reflected the democratic ideals of the Enlightenment, but in practice, the colonists’ achievements were inherently contradictory, since many of the founders were slaveholders. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The slaveholder could always manipulate the relationships between enslaved people for personal ends. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z He provides a description of Mr. Auld, a slaveholder, who seeks to impose illiteracy as a means to oppress others. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Despite southerners’ repeated insistence on states’ rights, the Fugitive Slave Act showed that slaveholders were willing to use the power of the federal government to bend people in other states to their will. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The society cannot with good conscience ask people of color to join a group named after a slaveholder and cultural imperialist, let alone wear a shirt or hat emblazoned with his name. Audubon’s beautiful birds don’t erase his racist life 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Some enslaved Africans remained with the slaveholder their entire lives, but others expected to regain their freedom. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z White slaveholders, who weren't ready for their oppressive regime to end, maliciously withheld the news. Juneteenth is a reminder that freedom still depends on where you live 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z In this description of Mr. Auld’s reaction, Douglass shows that slaveholders feared the power that enslaved people would have if they could read and write. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The Deep South was home to larger numbers of both slaveholders and enslaved people. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Dwight McKissick, senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, who is Black, brought up a motion to remove the names of slaveholders from buildings and endowed chairs at Southern Baptist seminaries. Southern Baptist Convention in Anaheim approves resolutions designed to fight sex abuse 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z They had no right to control their own bodies or their own labor, and they could be compelled to do whatever the slaveholder wished. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Most enslaved people were not literate and records documenting their existence were produced by slaveholders who emphasized their financial value over their humanity, Stevenson said. How a Black family's Bible ended up at the Smithsonian Institution 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The way that he articulates compassion for the slaveholders, despite their ill treatment of him, would create empathy in his readers and possibly provide a revelation for his audience. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Pro-Union sentiment remained strong in parts of the Upper South and border states, particularly those areas with smaller populations of slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “In 1850, one slaveholder beat an enslaved man in the town square of San Jose for disobeying him,” the report says. California task force suggests reparations in report detailing lasting harms of slavery 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z “Between Washington’s election and Lincoln’s,” Richards points out, “nineteen of the thirty-four Supreme Court appointees were slaveholders.” Opinion | It’s Not Looking Too Good for Government of the People, by the People and for the People 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Even the descendants of slaveholders who were paid say they have been largely left in the dark. Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z More important, the toll Haiti’s national bank took came after generations of payments to former slaveholders that inflicted as much as $115 billion in losses to the Haitian economy over the last two centuries. How a French Bank Captured Haiti 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Just behind Washington, enslaved William “Billy” Lee has his eyes firmly fixed on his slaveholder. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “The police arrested both men, but ultimately determined that the slaveholder was not guilty of assault because his victim was legally his property.” California task force suggests reparations in report detailing lasting harms of slavery 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z The slaveholding South may not have been as politically unified as charged, but the institutions of American democracy were slanted toward slaveholders, who really did capture the state for their own ends. Opinion | It’s Not Looking Too Good for Government of the People, by the People and for the People 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Emmanuel de la Burgade, a descendant of another slaveholder, said he had discovered the history only while writing a book about his family. Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Haiti, by contrast, obligated much of its coffee taxes to paying France — first to its former slaveholders, then to Crédit Industriel. How a French Bank Captured Haiti 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z With the exception of John Adams, who was from Massachusetts, all the early presidents—Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe—were members of Virginia’s elite slaveholder aristocracy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The reason is simple: Had the money not been handed over to Haiti’s former slaveholders, it would not have remained in the hands of the coffee farmers, laundresses, masons and others who earned it. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z One leader became infamous for wielding the same cruel punishments slaveholders had used, whipping colonists hundreds of times and hacking off their hands. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Last year, France’s national public research organization published a database listing compensation paid to French slaveholders, including the ones from Haiti. Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z French elites, including a descendant of one of the wealthiest slaveholders in Haiti’s history, controlled Haiti’s national bank from the French capital. How a French Bank Captured Haiti 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z By 1840, nearly twelve thousand enslaved Africans had been brought to Texas by American slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In the other cases, governments paid slaveholders to ease their opposition to abolition laws and to ensure that the economy would not crash, Beauvois said. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z In the other cases, governments paid slaveholders to ease their opposition to abolition laws and to ensure that the economy would not crash, she said. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z In 2016, France’s parliament symbolically repealed the 1825 ordinance that required the Haitian payments to former slaveholders — but stopped short of considering any financial restitution. Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z In the U.S., enslaved women were forced to nurse the children of slaveholders while their own babies starved. With baby formula scarce, California mothers are sharing their breast milk 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Identify the positions of both southern slaveholders and northern opponents of the spread of slavery. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The land already redistributed was taken back and all of the land returned to the former slaveholders. Reparations for slavery: A road map 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The reason is simple: Had the money not been handed over to Haiti’s former slaveholders, it would have been spent in the Haitian economy — by the coffee farmers, laundresses, masons and others who earned it. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z “Our kids are going to schools and libraries and places to learn” that are still named for slaveholders and proponents of discriminatory policy, the committee member who spoke with The Post said. Slaveowners’ names adorn D.C. buildings. The grand effort to change that is dead. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Changing tactics in the summer of 1835, the society mailed bundles of abolitionist literature to leading slaveholders throughout the South, with gory illustrations seemingly designed to inflame illiterate bondsmen. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z While most White southerners did not own hold, they aspired to join the ranks of elite slaveholders, who played a key role in the politics of both the South and the nation. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes, a slaveholder would make the choice to set a person free. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a fact that slaveholders — including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison — were central to the founding of a republic that became increasingly democratic. Opinion | Washington, Lincoln and the work they left behind 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z And Cheh said she wasn’t sure all the places on the committee’s list, such as schools named for several U.S. presidents or lyricist Key, another slaveholder, merited renaming. Slaveowners’ names adorn D.C. buildings. The grand effort to change that is dead. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Denied entry to slaveholders’ homes, abolitionists turned to Congress. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Other enslaved people reported their fellow captives to their slaveholders, hoping to gain preferential treatment. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z It was common for slaveholders to separate family members from one another, such as husbands from wives, and children from their parents. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Pupke, 51, found that an ancestor of his had been a major slaveholder, leaving more than 100 enslaved people to his heirs when he died. Asked to help, Post readers sent searing evidence about dozens more enslavers in Congress Compounding these problems is the extent to which we rely on the documentation of slaveholders for our knowledge of the enslaved. Opinion | We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Slavery would then remain legal to the moment of statehood, allowing slaveholders an initial foothold that later settlers might never dislodge. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Those who informed their holders about planned slave rebellions could often expect the slaveholder’s gratitude and, perhaps, more lenient treatment. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “Rather slaveholders were made larger people by virtue of holding others as slaves.” Review | An ‘exile’ from the American South finds the nation’s soul there 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z And he sent documents to The Post to demonstrate that Brown belongs on the list of slaveholders. Asked to help, Post readers sent searing evidence about dozens more enslavers in Congress Most citizens were intentionally locked out of the democratic process by the ruling white male aristocrats, most of them slaveholders. America's new class war: Organized labor is back 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Others simply tired of slaveholders’ seemingly endless and arrogant demands for deference and protection. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Such expectations were always tempered by the individual personality and caprice of the slaveholder. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z For most of our history conservatives have promoted the interests of slaveholders, big property owners, big business and big money, while progressives have promoted the interests of freedom for average working people. It's time for Democrats to reclaim FDR's brand as the "Freedom Party" 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Bacon’s addition to The Post’s database of slaveholders in Congress makes him one of the last former slaveholders to serve as a U.S. lawmaker — he represented Georgia in the Senate from 1895 to 1914. Asked to help, Post readers sent searing evidence about dozens more enslavers in Congress “It was quite another thing to actually criminalize slavery, emancipate enslaved people, punish slaveholders, and give Black people protections for their freedoms.” California created the nation's first state reparations task force. Now comes the hard part 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Supporters boasted of 50,000 escapes, for example, but the slaveholders themselves, who bitterly protested assistance to runaways, only reported about a thousand fugitives each year to US census takers. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, some slaveholders allowed marriages to promote the birth of children and to foster harmony on plantations. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In Chicago, the public school system pledged to rename 30 buildings bearing the names of slaveholders. Georgia university system refuses to rename buildings, insists 'history' teaches 'important lessons' 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z By far the most prolific contributor has been Luke Voyles, a 26-year-old pursuing his PhD in history at the University of Alabama, who has identified 39 slaveholders and counting. Asked to help, Post readers sent searing evidence about dozens more enslavers in Congress California’s Fugitive Slave Law of 1852 authorized slaveholders to use violent means to capture enslaved people who arrived in California before its statehood and escaped, or refused to return to slave states with their enslaver. California created the nation's first state reparations task force. Now comes the hard part 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Repeating a popular Democratic position, Douglas replied that territories could keep out slaveholders by refusing to pass any laws to protect human property, such as banning aid to runaways or creating nightly patrols. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Durnford became an American citizen after the Louisiana Purchase, rising to prominence as a Louisiana sugar planter and slaveholder. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Some local governments in Georgia have been removing monuments or renaming buildings that formerly honored Confederates, slaveholders or white supremacists, despite a state law designed to prohibit such changes. Georgia regents: No college name changes over racial history 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The thought of a list of all the slaveholders in Congress had crossed his mind as he worked on his list of more than 300 Confederates who served in Congress. Asked to help, Post readers sent searing evidence about dozens more enslavers in Congress He explained his tipping point: Working from home and hearing his teenage daughter’s teacher make a comment during a virtual lesson about white men as modern-day slaveholders. In the Final Days Before Virginia Votes, Both Sides Claim Momentum 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z The states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas contained deep divisions between upland and low country districts and lower concentrations of slaves and slaveholders than those of the Deep South. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z By the eve of the Civil War, Ellison had become one of the richest and largest slaveholders in the entire state. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z This decision is an opportunity to commission a sculpture that celebrates the Jeffersonian ideals of liberty and democracy without idolizing the slaveholder himself. Vote to remove Thomas Jefferson statue from New York City Council Chamber long overdue 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The Post’s original story said that slaveholders represented 37 states in Congress. Asked to help, Post readers sent searing evidence about dozens more enslavers in Congress And he drew the logical conclusion that, if violent rebellion was justified against England, it was also justified against slaveholders and their enablers. Opinion | Of all the conservative bans on teaching about racism, the one in Texas is the worst 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Opposition to planter power and slaveholders’ privileges—if not slavery itself—roiled their politics and dampened secessionist fever. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z White slaveholders, however, constantly feared uprisings and took drastic steps, including torture and mutilation, whenever they believed that rebellions might be simmering. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z They argue, persuasively, that the likeness of a slaveholder is an inappropriate symbol of those ideals. Vote to remove Thomas Jefferson statue from New York City Council Chamber long overdue 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Some members of the 51-member New York City Council have called for years for the statue to be removed from the room where they conduct business because Jefferson was a slaveholder. Fate of NYC City Hall Jefferson statue unclear after vote 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z The school requested the change because the 10th U.S. president “was a slaveholder, supported slavery throughout his political career, and was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives.” Virginia community colleges change names in effort to be ‘woke’ 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Everyone knew that slavery had led to war, but not all slave states had seceded, not all slaveholders were disloyal, and not all northerners wanted abolition. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Each of these roles and the relationships they defined was subject to the prerogative of a slaveholder, who could freely violate enslaved women’s persons, sell off their children, or separate them from their families. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Berry writes, "Stories that have come down to me tell me that on both sides of my family there were slaveholders." White America's "hidden wound" threatens to destroy the country — and not for the first time 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z It was named for James Marion Sims, a Southern gynecologist and slaveholder who made his advancements by experimenting on enslaved women. Taking the ‘Shame Part’ Out of Female Anatomy 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z But the white supremacist slaveholders representing the slave states in the Convention wanted more power in Congress and lower taxes in their own states, much like today's Republicans. Josh Hawley's deranged "Love America Act" is a testament to racist hatred 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z While directed against slaveholders, his arguments persisted in American culture as a rebuke of foreign inequalities and a reply to Americans who protested “wage slavery.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It also showed slaveholders’ willingness to unite against the federal government when they believed it acted unjustly against their interests. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z There’s a growing campaign, for example, to drop the eponyms of birds that honor slaveholders and white supremacists — Bird Names for Birds. Watching for birds & diversity: Audubon groups pledge change 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z And we can also call out those among them who were slaveholders and note — it’s one of many disturbing facts — that the Constitution they wrote counted enslaved Black Americans as merely three-fifths of a person. Opinion | A progressive’s brand of patriotism 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z His eventual successor, Joe Biden, issued a brief video saying the country had yet to live up to its promise of equality, noting that even Jefferson was a slaveholder. July 4, Juneteenth and the meaning of national holidays 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Without much government enforcement, the reform movement struggled to make evangelical values a national creed, sometimes battling uphill against divergent values among the working class, immigrants, frontier settlers, and slaveholders. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Over the objections of slaveholders, it impressed enslaved people, seizing these enslaved workers from their owners and forcing them to work on fortifications and rail lines. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z So the Founding Fathers are cast less as architects of the new Republic, and more as slaveholders and white oppressors. Once the future, US now captive to its past 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z I recently moderated a panel at the College of Charleston in South Carolina about monuments, memorials and institutions that honor people who, notwithstanding any worthy contributions, were also slaveholders. Opinion | A Virginia college taps the brakes on change 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Five honor slaveholders, confederates or segregationists, according to the newspaper. State board urges renaming of 2 Virginia community colleges 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z As an eloquent former slaveholder, Sarah drew instant attention when she aired her views in the Liberator, and Garrison recruited the two as agents of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Poor White people resented the ability of wealthy slaveholders to excuse themselves from military service. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z They also blocked a proposal to move or better explain a statue of the city and county’s namesake, Collin McKinney, a slaveholder with Black descendants. Right-wing extremism is flourishing in North Texas suburbs after Capitol insurrection 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Cannon said W&L should return to being called Washington College because, though both namesakes were slaveholders, Lee was also a traitor. Opinion | A Virginia college taps the brakes on change 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z “But as payment for their work would likely have gone directly to the slaveholder, unless their labor is specified in the ledgers, their identities remain undocumented.” Historians seek out Black Americans who built State House 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Its regimentation made slaves significantly more productive than free workers and gave masters a marked economic advantage over yeomen and small slaveholders. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He knew the proclamation could be easily challenged in court, but by excluding the territories still outside his control, slaveholders and slave governments could not sue him. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Racist notions about people of color, immigrants and politicians have been given mainstream media platforms, are represented in statues and symbols to slaveholders and segregationists, and helped demagogues win elections to high office. Analysis: A race war evident long before the Capitol siege 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Last year, even while announcing new scholarship funds for Black students, Mohler declined to change the names of buildings at his seminary named after slaveholders. Prominent Black pastor pondering exit from Southern Baptists 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Stroop noted that Southern Baptists formed in the 1840s, in a schism from Baptists in the North over whether a slaveholder could be a Christian missionary. The struggle for religious freedom — from Thomas Jefferson to Black Lives Matter 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Eastern delegate Benjamin Watkins Leigh boldly avowed that slavery required white inequality, for with equal voting rights, westerners would impose ruinous taxes on eastern slaveholders to pay for extravagant internal improvements. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Private manumissions, by which slaveholders freed the enslaved, provided one pathway from bondage. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “The challenge prior to 1870 is to find the identity of the last slaveholder,” said Smith. Perspective | The past will be present at Montgomery County’s virtual history conference 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The SBC, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. was founded in an 1845 split with northern Baptists over slavery and became the church of Southern slaveholders. Prominent Black pastor pondering exit from Southern Baptists 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Of course, Jefferson has come in for increasing criticism from the left as well, due to his slaveholder status, which looms larger than ever after last year's historic Black Lives Matters protests. The struggle for religious freedom — from Thomas Jefferson to Black Lives Matter 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Coming from a yeoman piedmont family, Helper used elaborate statistical comparisons to prove that slavery grossly damaged the southern economy, but he directed his fiercest rhetoric against the political power of slaveholders. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Like him, they were slaveholders and represented the Democratic- Republican Party. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When I lived in Curacao, I visited the monument to Tula, an enslaved man who led a 1795 rebellion against Dutch slaveholders. Opinion | Don’t ‘better explain’ the Emancipation Memorial. Put up monuments to Black people instead. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z He once wrote in a court ruling that slaveholders should not be convicted for the assault or battery of an enslaved person. NC Supreme Court removing portrait of slave owner ex-justice 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Its first bishop, Alexander Gregg, was a slaveholder, and its first church, in the town of Matagorda, was built with slave labor. More US churches are committing to racism-linked reparations 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Some Republicans also denounced the injustice of slavery for blacks, but all agreed that it gave unfair advantages to slaveholders and allowed them to deny opportunity to other whites. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z For slaveholders, new western lands would be a boon; for their captives, the Louisiana Purchase threatened to entrench their suffering further. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “Slaves sued slaveholders in every court available to them and in every jurisdiction they could reach from the very beginning of the United States,” he writes. Review | The enslaved families who went to court to win their freedom 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The property was once owned by slaveholders, including Dr. George Gilmer, who was Thomas Jefferson’s physician. Virginia city to receive report on unmarked graves 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Under President James Buchanan, slaveholders were free to do as they liked; as Frederick Douglass complained, slave traders actually flew the Stars and Stripes as they carried their human cargoes back from Africa. Wide Awakes: the Lincoln-era youth movement inspiring anti-Trump protests 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z The Republican candidate did abhor slavery, he was determined to check the political power of slaveholders, and he thought that racist demagoguery was a smoke screen to preserve the privileges of the Slave Power. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Tallmadge Amendment was narrowly rejected, the balance between free and slave states was maintained in the Senate, and southerners did not have to fear that Missouri slaveholders would be deprived of their human property. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z What does she tell her students about living in a land where slaveholders created what they called the Land of the Free? Washington is named for a president who owned slaves. Should it be? 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Less noted, in between, is William Styron’s “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” a novel from the point of view of the very real Black man who led a bloody uprising against slaveholders in August 1831. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is Good TV. But Mix Art and Slavery at Your Peril. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z In the 1700s and 1800s, slaveholders quoted the book of Philemon and lines from St. Paul's epistles to claim that slavery was ordained by God. The rise of Christian Nationalism in America 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z “The simple way...to put an end to the savage and desolating war now waged by the slaveholders, is to strike down slavery itself, the primal cause of that war.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Despite this unequal distribution of wealth, non-slaveholding White people shared with White slaveholders a common set of values, most notably a belief in White supremacy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He was a murderer, a slaveholder, a terror and a pest. In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z “Let’s not deal with the fact that many of the framers were slaveholders.” Trump alleges ‘left-wing indoctrination’ in schools, says he will create commission to push more ‘pro-American’ history 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z For those advocating the removal of statues of Confederate generals, slaveholders and others with checkered histories on race, Eisenhower presents a different sort of figure. Eisenhower Memorial, Delayed by Design Disputes, Opens This Week 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Prewar slaveholders had won yeoman support by honoring their freedom and independence. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z For White slaveholders, the male-dominated household operated to protect gendered divisions and prevalent gender norms; for enslaved women, however, the same system exposed them to brutality and frequent sexual domination. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z But when it comes to churches as slaveholders, Jennifer Oast, associate professor and chair of the history department at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, said the old church’s practice was not uncommon. Virginia churches reckon with history in slave trade 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s part of a legacy of racism going back to the country’s founding, when the authors of the Constitution gave slaveholders immense political power while allowing them to treat enslaved Africans as less than human. News Analysis: 'Something's got to give': Trump stirs old racial hatred, but this time feels different 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Scholars who’ve studied Black Catholics’ history have been harsh in their assessments - for example, detailing how numerous Catholic institutions and civic leaders were major slaveholders. Black Catholics’ history: Will US Catholic schools teach it? 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Led by slaveholders, large numbers of whites fled the northern approach and brought with them as many slaves and valuables as possible. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Spanish Cuba became the objective of many American slaveholders in the 1850s, as debate over the island dominated the national conversation. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Scholars who’ve studied Black Catholics’ history have been harsh in their assessments — for example, detailing how numerous Catholic institutions and civic leaders were major slaveholders. Black Catholics’ history: Will US Catholic schools teach it? 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z The school was founded by a slaveholder: Thomas Jefferson. Commentary: Goodbye, guy on a horse. A new wave of monument design is changing how we honor history 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z One researcher found that more than three-fourths of Southerners who wrote to the Brazilian government to inquire about immigration were slaveholders. They lost the Civil War and fled to Brazil. Their descendants refuse to take down the Confederate flag. 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Southerners replied that the exclusion of slavery made slaveholders unequal citizens and deprived them of equally needed room for expansion. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Louisiana legislature in 1854 asked the federal government to take decisive action, and John Quitman, a former Mississippi governor, raised money from slaveholders to fund efforts to take the island. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z As antiracist activists topple statues of slaveholders across the country, UC San Francisco threatens to demolish a very different kind of monument: a mural depicting a celebrated former slave. Op-Ed: A monument to California's Black history may soon be destroyed 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z They then moved on to slaveholders – including Founding Fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson – and other controversial figures such as Christopher Columbus, whose legacies are complicated. Melania Trump statue in Slovenia set on fire on Fourth of July; suspects sought 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Many of the founding fathers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, were slaveholders, despite waxing poetic about how the institution was a “moral depravity”. 'The worshipping of whiteness': why racist symbols persist in America 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Once a slaveholders’ republic, the United States became legally committed to equality, an achievement that later failures could not erase. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Cuba was not the only territory in slaveholders’ expansionist sights: some focused on Mexico and Central America. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The regents adopted a resolution Thursday that recognizes that most of the university’s founding fathers were slaveholders, racists and white supremacists when the school was founded in 1845. Baylor to review statues, buildings over links to slavery 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Sure, there is plenty of quarrel with the iconic statue to the slaveholder and Native American-slaughterer in Lafayette Square, the one that protesters tried unsuccessfully to topple. Perspective | Toppling more statues isn’t working when there’s other work to be done 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z It is reasonable to clear our landscape of public commemoration of the failed, four-year slaveholders’ rebellion to sustain white supremacy known as the Confederacy, even if it doesn’t erase our history. Opinion | Yes, the Freedmen’s Memorial uses racist imagery. But don’t tear it down. 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z As one slaveholder explained to northern traveler Frederick Law Olmsted, hired slaves “got a habit of roaming about and taking care of themselves.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Walker led a filibuster expedition and briefly conquered Nicaragua, fulfilling a dream of many pro- expansionist southern slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z She noted that composer Francis Scott Key had a history of derogatory comments about African-Americans and was a “known slaveholder.” Yahoo music editor ponders ditching 'The Star-Spangled Banner' 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Jefferson, Washington and other Founders were slaveholders, but they also produced a Declaration of Independence that declared “all men are created equal.” Opinion | Funny how Trump’s dislike for ‘losers’ doesn’t extend to Confederate generals 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Protesters have also at times targeted Founding Fathers who were slaveholders, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. North Carolina removes Confederate statue's pillar near Statehouse after 125 years 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z At the other end of the scale, nearly half of all slaveholders owned no more than five slaves. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The revival spurred many slaveholders to begin encouraging the people they enslaved to become Christians. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z There was a “real element of racism in my life growing up,” said Bohon, whose ancestors were slaveholders. Across the U.S., families are having tough talks about racism 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Demonstrators on Thursday night tore down a statue of George Washington, the nation’s first president and a slaveholder. Multiple events planned to celebrate Juneteenth in Portland 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Demonstrators on Thursday night tore down a statue of George Washington, the nation’s first president and a slaveholder. Multiple events planned to celebrate Juneteenth in Portland 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The reporter probably found an extreme example, but among ordinary slaveholders simple quarters were far more common than pillared mansions. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Previously, many slaveholders feared allowing the enslaved to convert, due to a belief that Christians could not be enslaved and because of the fear that enslaved people might use Christian principles to oppose their enslavement. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Slavery was so deeply embedded in the country’s history that the resistance to ending it was fierce, especially among slaveholders. Juneteenth celebrates ‘a moment of indescribable joy’: Slavery’s end in Texas 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z BERKELEY, Calif. — Two San Francisco Bay Area schools named for founding fathers who were slaveholders will get new names following a push by Black Lives Matter activists, according to a newspaper report. Berkeley to rename Washington, Jefferson schools after Black Lives Matter push 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z BERKELEY, Calif. — Two San Francisco Bay Area schools named for founding fathers who were slaveholders will get new names following a push by Black Lives Matter activists, according to a newspaper report. Berkeley to rename Washington, Jefferson schools after Black Lives Matter push 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Though slaveholders controlled a disproportionate share of the South’s wealth, the majority of southern households owned no slaves but enough land and equipment to live in simple comfort. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Walker became a symbol of hope to free people in the North and a symbol of the terrors of literate, educated Black people to the slaveholders of the South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The 10 generals include some who made costly battlefield blunders; others mistreated captured Union soldiers, some were slaveholders and one was linked to the Ku Klux Klan after the war. US base namesakes include slaveholders, failed generals 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Two of the plantations were owned by the county’s biggest slaveholders. Forgotten cemetery may be under Miccosukee Greenway trail 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z His ancestors were slaveholders in South Carolina and Virginia, and Pinckney said he never questioned the Southern heritage all around him. Along historic Richmond street, residents grapple with Confederate legacy 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z After all, Polk was an ardent expansionist, slaveholder, and Jacksonian who had not offended the Van Burenites. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Influenced by evangelical Protestantism, Garrison and other abolitionists believed in moral suasion, a technique of appealing to the conscience of the public, especially slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Gen. Braxton Bragg, namesake for the famed North Carolina Army base, was also a slaveholder and an unpopular general who resigned his command after defeat in 1863 at Chattanooga. US base namesakes include slaveholders, failed generals 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z He learned that before he fought for the Confederacy, Wade Hampton III was one of the largest slaveholders in the South. Library CEO changes name after learning its racist roots 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Activists in states across the country — and in Europe — continued to push for the removal of statues, monuments and symbols that honor slaveholders and other racist figures from past centuries. Lawmakers grapple with policing and race as focus shifts from the streets to the Capitol 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Historians have used the ownership of 20 slaves or more to distinguish between small slaveholders and planters. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Although Garrison rejected the U.S. political system as a tool of slaveholders, other abolitionists believed mainstream politics could bring about their goal, and they helped create the Liberty Party in 1840. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Disgust over generations of racism in a country founded by slaveholders combined with a string of recent racially charged killings to stoke the anger. US heads into a new week shaken by violence and pandemic 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Another central figure in Richardson’s narrative is the South Carolina slaveholder, governor and senator James Henry Hammond, perhaps one of the vilest characters in American history. Review | Southern elites, Western libertarians and the conservative coalition 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z “They were slaveholders and they were treated like property, not like human beings. It was disturbing.” Slavery documents from Southern saltmakers shed light on dark history 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Ironically, most of North Carolina’s leading revolutionaries were eastern leaders who fought with Tryon in this conflict, but the clash taught frontier yeoman to distrust both coastal slaveholders and British officials. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In 1857, the Supreme Court—led by Chief Justice Roger Taney, a former slaveholder who had freed his those he had enslaved—handed down its decision. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He calls American policy toward the indigenous tribes of the Southeast one of the “first state-sponsored mass expulsions in the modern world” and says that this expulsion was “the war the slaveholders won.” Review | Illuminating slave owners’ crucial role in the expulsion of Native Americans 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Former Maryland State Archivist Edward Papenfuse confirmed that the men, both signers of the Declaration of Independence, also were slaveholders. Towson student group: Rename buildings honoring slave owners 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z However much the slaveholders profited, enslaved people and the poor white farmers whose wages were stifled by free labor did not see the benefits of the boom. Trump's greatest vulnerability is the economy – just ask poor Americans | Reverend William Barber 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z With a few holdouts in the tidewater and low country, most southern planters supported the Republican party of their fellow slaveholders Jefferson and Madison. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In Columbia, the state capital, the Union army burned slaveholders’ homes and destroyed much of the city. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, “we want to make whiteness monolithic,” painting all slaveholders as simplistically evil, she said. She was raped by the owner of a notorious slave jail. Later, she inherited it. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z “Because slaveholders wrote the first draft of history,” Vincent Brown laments, “subsequent historiography has strained to escape from their point of view.” The Long War Against Slavery 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z In fact, Smith claimed 14 enslaved women and children, making him the largest slaveholder in the continent’s Far West. Op-Ed: California's forgotten slave history 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Toussaint’s caution, however, did not disguise the fact that the ideals of the French and American republics had inspired what slaveholders feared most: a successful black revolution. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z American slaveholders in Texas distrusted the Mexican government’s reluctant tolerance of slavery and wanted Texas to be a new U.S. slave state. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The stories of Lumpkin and the many enslaved women like her who had long-standing intimate relationships with powerful white men and slaveholders before the Civil War were largely unrecorded and remain untold. She was raped by the owner of a notorious slave jail. Later, she inherited it. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z It was, according to America’s slaveholder religion, a positive good. Evangelicals using religion for political gain is nothing new. It is a US tradition | Reverend William Barber 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Well into the 1850s, the slaveholders of San Bernardino operated openly, free from legal interference. Op-Ed: California's forgotten slave history 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Assembling in December 1814, the Hartford Convention took no immediate action but demanded a series of constitutional amendments to limit Republican power, including repeal of the three-fifths clause that benefited southern slaveholders. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z This federal law appeared to northerners to be further proof of a “Slave Power” conspiracy and elite slaveholders’ disproportionate influence over U.S. domestic policy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Brown’s wife, Nancy, was later sold to another slaveholder, who began blackmailing Brown into renting a house for Nancy and the children and making payments to keep him from selling the young family away. Slavery cost him his family. That’s when Henry ‘Box’ Brown mailed himself to freedom. 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Indeed, the flag first flew in front of an all-white army fighting to create a slaveholders’ republic. Opinion | Nikki Haley gets the history of the Confederate flag very wrong 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z When Mormon slaveholders crossed the border into California, they entered a free state. Op-Ed: California's forgotten slave history 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z His three-fifths compromise thus gave special protection to the interests of slaveholders without using the word “slave” in the Constitution itself. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Indeed, physical, mental, and sexual violence formed a key strategy among European slaveholders in their effort to assert mastery and impose their will. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z But it’s chilling to consider that we might be bound forever not only to the words but to the world views of a group of eighteenth-century men—many of whom were slaveholders. The Trump Impeachment Hearings and Justice Antonin Scalia 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Johnson, a poor white Southerner, became a slaveholder and successful politician, occupying local, state and national office. Opinion | Donald Trump, Meet Your Precursor 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Her third escape came as she learned her former slaveholder sought her. Burial site put into Underground Railroad Network to Freedom 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z As further concessions to slaveholders, the Constitution declared that “No Person held to Service or Labour in one state” could gain freedom by escaping to another, once again avoiding the word “slave.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In addition, the idea that the French Revolution could inspire a successful slave uprising just off the American coastline filled southern White people and slaveholders with horror. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Meredith, who said his ancestors were slaveholders, unfolded an original runaway-slave ad, published Oct. A new Harriet Tubman movie also stars the places where the Underground Railroad leader made history 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The spread of slavery threatened to expand the number of its immediate victims but also threatened to reduce everyone else to political vassalage, ruled by the slaveholders and their adjunct classes. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z In “feeble health,” the letter continued, she hired herself out to work for another family, with her slaveholder receiving the money. Burial site put into Underground Railroad Network to Freedom 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Plantation slavery thrived on the fertile soil of the lowlands, but the higher ground held more yeomen and small slaveholders. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z William H. Crawford, a slaveholder from Georgia, suffered a stroke in 1823 that left him largely incapacitated, but he ran nonetheless and had the backing of the New York machine headed by Van Buren. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Although Mason’s writings are unparalleled, any judgment of him as a man must be viewed in the same light as Washington, Jefferson, Madison and other prominent slaveholders. Opinion | George Mason was a conflicted slave owner 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z He was among one of the state’s largest slaveholders, forcing more than 100 people into slavery over the course of his lifetime, said George Oberle, a history librarian at the university. GMU to erect memorial honoring more than 100 people enslaved by George Mason 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z For example, Mr. Edwards was not asked about revelations his ancestors were major slaveholders in the antebellum South and that his grandfather supported racist legislation as a Baton Rouge lawmaker. Louisiana gubernatorial candidates sharpen attacks in second debate 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The slaveholders themselves were a minority of the population, but slave ownership gave them powerful economic, political, and social privileges. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z By 1818, tens of thousands of settlers had flocked to Missouri, including slaveholders who brought with them some ten thousand enslaved people. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Adams despised Tyler because he was a slaveholder. ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “People are still talking about how the slave trade was marginal, slave traders were these ostracized dirtbags, and slaveholders only bought and sold people when they had to,” Rothman said. They were once America’s cruelest, richest slave traders. Why does no one know their names? 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z Clark said he believes the Bibb house will be the only museum in the country that was both the home of a major slaveholder and was the site of the mass emancipation of slaves. Reunion for descendants of slaves and the man who freed them 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Infuriated by northern assistance to runaways, slaveholders had demanded a stronger Fugitive Slave Act in return for the admission of California and insisted on its strict enforcement. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Uncertainty about its future did not discourage Americans committed to expansion, especially slaveholders, from rushing to settle in the Lone Star Republic, however. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Jesuit priests, who founded and ran Georgetown, for instance, were among the largest slaveholders in Maryland. The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, was also a slaveholder from the South. Presidents have made racist gestures throughout US history 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, was also a slaveholder from the South. Presidents have made racist gestures throughout US history 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z With no restraints on their authority, other slaveholders could be equally callous. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In contrast, they argued, southern enslaved people were provided with a home, the necessities of life, and the protection of their slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He equated Southern slaveholders with European aristocrats, Blackburn writes, and thought ending chattel slavery “would not destroy capitalism, but it would create conditions far more favorable to organizing and elevating labor, whether white or black.” You know who was into Karl Marx? No, not AOC. Abraham Lincoln. 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Jackson was a slaveholder and slave trader who enabled the aggressive persecution of Native Americans and curtailed political and economic rights of black Americans. Obama-era officials say Trump administration hasn’t delayed new $20 bill, despite Harriet Tubman firestorm 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Still, McCurry makes clear that slaveholders — especially women — lost a lot more than money when they lost their slaves. Review | How women impacted the Civil War — and changed the rules of warfare 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z On his journeys Olmsted met many slaveholders and came to loathe their system and their craven ideology; Horwitz finds their remnants festering. Review | In his last book, Tony Horwitz sets out once more to find America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z His popularity with the American people served him well, and his status as a slaveholder helped him win the South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Early on, many slaveholders were not concerned with the spiritual well-being of Africans. The Bible was used to justify slavery. Then Africans made it their path to freedom. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z “The very first people I ever thought about linking over time were these slaveholders,” Boustan said. What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z He says he was inspired by a conversation with his young daughter, who asked why there were statues of slaveholders but not people who looked like her. The District may launch a task force to review offensive school, street names 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z However, it discovered that money given by slaveholders and the interest income it generated accounted for 15 percent of the total revenue of the seminary in the pre-Civil War era. Princeton Seminary students are asking for reparations for school’s role in slavery 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Some slaveholders, like President Taylor, considered the question a moot point because the lands acquired from Mexico were far too dry for growing cotton and therefore, they thought, no slaveholder would want to move there. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He preaches about the ways slaveholders claimed the Bible was on their side, citing passages that commanded servants to obey. The Bible was used to justify slavery. Then Africans made it their path to freedom. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z That move made them once again vulnerable to Southern slaveholders. Their ancestors fled U.S. slavery for Mexico. Now they’re looking north again. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Tracing the transition from childhood to adulthood, Jones-Rogers turns to married women’s roles and identities as slaveholders. Review | White women’s long-overlooked complicity in the brutality of slaveholding 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z In addition to slaveholders across the South, even abolitionists failed to imagine a coequal state after the Civil War. Review: America’s drive west was once destiny — Now it’s a wall 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Other southerners, however, argued that the question was not whether slaveholders would want to move to the lands of the Mexican Cession, but whether they could and still retain control of their enslaved property. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Roughly six weeks after Crittenden was sworn in for his second go-around, President Millard Fillmore signed into law the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 as part of a compromise between Southern slaveholders and Northern abolitionists. William Barr can learn from John J. Crittenden AG tenure 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Remember, slaveholders, especially nice ones like Madison, thought themselves charitable caretakers. Voter suppression carries slavery's three-fifths clause into the present 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Bolivar made instant enemies of slaveholders in the newly formed US and the rest of the Americas upon embracing a universal right and call to happiness without hypocrisy. What has happened in Venezuela is a coup. Trump’s denial is dangerous | Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Jefferson today is regarded by some as a hypocritical slaveholder rather than as an apostle of liberty. Fifty years ago today, Richard Nixon took office, and for him it was a time of hope, civility and optimism 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Orchestrated largely by slaveholders, the acquisition of Texas appeared the next logical step in creating an American empire that included slavery. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Advocates for the change might be content with a shift in focus from Lee the slaveholder to Lee the statesman. Opinion | A compromise on the Washington-Lee name 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z It was a middle ground between the interests of southern planters and their peers: citizens who were not slaveholders nor supported primarily by a slave economy. Voter suppression carries slavery's three-fifths clause into the present 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Slavery was the dominant issue, with Congress engaged in a daily tug of war over abolition and slaveholder rights. A fanatic and 'Negro-stealer’: One of the ugliest House speaker fights in history 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z But this doesn't exonerate Trump from accusations of anti-Semitism any more than the existence of slaveholders vindicates the racists who "only" argued for "separate but equal" treatment of black Americans. There is a long and clear history of Trump using and winking at anti-Semitic propaganda and bigotry 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Whenever new slave states entered the Union, White slaveholders sent armies of the enslaved to clear the land in order to grow and pick the lucrative crop. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “He is a desperate slaveholder who will shock the humanity of his non-slaveholding neighbors with the cries of his lacerated slave.” The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Then, a few years ago, Land read “His Excellency,” Joseph J. Ellis’s biography of Washington, and reflected further on the fact that the nation’s first President was a slaveholder. Who’s Afraid of George Washington? 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z He was hardly a U.S. slaveholder because the Colonies didn’t declare their independence from Britain until 1776. Opinion | The history of slaveholding 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The fact it did, is due in large part to Sir George Yeardley, a military man, social reformer - and one of the first English slaveholders in the colonies. Unearthing the Briton who shaped early America 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Other slaveholders knew that feeding the enslaved could increase productivity and therefore provided what they thought would help ensure a profitable crop. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The presiding judges, both slaveholders, were Clement Dorsey, later elected to the U.S. ‘GREAT EXCITEMENT. Runaway Slaves’: The slave uprising that Maryland seems to want to forget 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Whether the attorney general knows this or not, slaveholders used to cite the same chapter and verse in the mid-19th century to justify their horrific practices. This Week in God, 6.16.18 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z My family members were individually appraised and assigned monetary value along with the plows and land and animals that belonged to the slaveholders. Opinion | Corey Stewart is a walking train wreck 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z In addition to its debates over gender roles, the SBC has struggled to overcome its history as a denomination formed in defense of slaveholders. #MeToo cases in the spotlight as Southern Baptists convene 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Some slaveholders responded to this situation by releasing enslaved people; far more decided to sell their excess bondsmen. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In 2016, Harvard Law School dropped its official seal because it featured the family crest of prominent slaveholders. Boston Grapples With Faneuil Hall, Named for a Slaveholder 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “Even though the system changed, the people remained the same. Cunningham and Ellis were former Confederates, slaveholders,” said McDaniel. Cemetery near Houston could be resting place for prisoners 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Black prisoners are given longer average sentences as well in this first state of the slaveholder rebellion of 1861–66. Guards Waited Hours to Stop a Prison Riot That Left 7 Inmates Dead 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z According to historian James David Nichols, Texas slaveholders took matters into their own hands and sent armed militias to the border and into Mexico to search for runaway slaves. AP Explains: Why US militarization of border isn’t new 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Inspired by the successful overthrow of the White planter class in Haiti, a group of people enslaved in Louisiana took up arms against slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z It was filmed on locations in 12 states and in Africa, and it included historians, and descendants of slaves and slaveholders. Jacquie Jones, award-winning director who led group to aid black filmmakers, dies at 52 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The current law consists of a policy issuing or benefitting a slaveholder that insured against a slave’s injury or death. Bills on live video, pink hunting gear, organ transplants 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z “The leadership of the Republican Party, which is the popular party, is Southern slaveholders,” Mr. Wood says. Polarization Is an Old American Story 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison said there should be “no union with slaveholders,” preferring disunion to association with slave states. Opinion | Frederick Douglass, a champion of American individualism 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z How did both slaveholders and enslaved people use the concept of paternalism to their advantage? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Writes Feldman: “Madison’s position reflected the contorted moral logic of slaveholders enacting a slavery-protecting constitution while claiming to oppose that very institution.” Slavery and the contradictions of James Madison 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z “Do you look for slaveholders? Do you follow the money? Do you try to understand the political culture on campus? Do you follow the students?” As colleges investigate slavery ties, George Washington University joins in 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z For some of my friends on the left, all they need to know about George Washington is that he was a slaveholder. Why the Tally of the Church Shooting’s Victims Included a Fetus 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 allowed Southern slaveholders — who had $4 billion in wealth in the form of enslaved people, McCurry said — to argue that the threat to slavery was imminent. Historians horrified at John Kelly’s Civil War remarks: ‘Strange,’ ‘sad,’ ‘wrong’ 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Many leading American statesmen, including slaveholders, favored colonization, relocating Black Americans to Africa, which abolitionists scorned. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z And while there was little doubt that President Abraham Lincoln was morally opposed to slavery, he initially pursued a centrist approach toward slaveholders in the South and their opponents in the North. John Kelly says US Civil War was prompted by inability to compromise 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z “A lot of slaveholders had no more than three or four.” Civil War’s legacy hangs over a plaque honoring Confederate soldiers 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z “Southern slaveholders, however – some of them also involved in the revivals – interpreted the Bible as affirming slavery.” Inside the sprawling, controversial $500m Museum of the Bible 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z A bishop of the Methodist church inherited slaves and the denomination voted, in a contentious referendum, to ask him to resign from serving as bishop until he was not a slaveholder. On its 100th birthday, a church repents for its racist founders 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Southern extremists, especially wealthy slaveholders, reacted with outrage at this effort to limit slavery’s expansion. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Evidently, history and heritage are only important when invoked to defend alabaster monuments to slaveholders. Bears Ears is sacred to Native Americans. But heritage isn't all equal for Trump | Julian Brave NoiseCat 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z There was better press for Lee — a brutal slaveholder — than for Grant, the exceptional northern commander who eventually defeated Lee. The space Trump fills in America’s racial politics 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z And why would they, a recently emancipated black family, ever travel to Louisiana to work land that was dominated by slaveholders? Her ancestors were Georgetown’s slaves. Now, at age 63, she’s enrolled there — as a college freshman 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z It wasn’t immediately known if the theft was related to disputes around the U.S. about monuments to Confederates, slaveholders and other historical figures. Stolen Civil War general’s bust found in Philadelphia 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z These Native American slaveholders, who had been forced from their lands in Georgia and elsewhere in the Deep South during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, now found unprecedented common cause with White slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z You won’t find them in the “beautiful statues and monuments” — Trump’s words this week — of slaveholders and traitors. WWII vets: the real American heritage 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Slavery was a system, said Jefferson, “daily exercised in tyranny,” with slaveholders practicing “unremitting despotism,” and the slaves a “degrading submission.” 'The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon': America's deadly divide - and why it has returned 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z All four men were slaveholders, but only Lee and Jackson rebelled against the US to protect the institution of slavery in the civil war. Charlottesville remarks prompt another 'worst week' for Trump – until the next one 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z As President Trump pointed out, George Washington was a slaveholder. Should Washington and Jefferson monuments come down? - BBC News 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z In this way, slaveholders gained a significant tax break. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z One tactic that slaveholders employed to purposefully create tension among slaves — thus preventing unity and possible uprisings — was to give more privileges to some slaves. Perspective | One of the costs of racism in American society 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z That impulse led to the election of Lincoln in 1860, interpreted by most southern slaveholders, who firmly controlled that region’s politics, as the primary impulse to secede from the union. 'The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon': America's deadly divide - and why it has returned 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Trump mockingly suggested that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson—founders and slaveholders alike—would be next. How President Trump Failed His Biggest Leadership Test Yet 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z While all four men were slaveholders, neither Washington nor Jefferson ever rebelled against the US in an attempt to protect the institution of slavery from federal interference. Donald Trump blames 'both sides' for Charlottesville at press conference 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z The three-fifths compromise gave an advantage to slaveholders; they added three-fifths of their human property to their state’s population, allowing them to send representatives based in part on the number of people they enslaved. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Statesmen, abolitionists, slaveholders and the enslaved themselves participated in this debate, which eventually begat the Civil War and emancipation. Opinion | Was Abraham Lincoln an incorrigible racist? 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Better than any book of the tumultuous 1850s, Helper’s book circulated the ten-year-old rope that slaveholders feared could bind together non-slaveholding white people above and below the Mason-Dixon line. Confederate Monuments and the Forgotten Warning of a Crisis to Come 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z By 1860, the Texas enslaved population was 182,566, but slaveholders represented 27 percent of the population, and controlled 68 percent of the government positions and 73 percent of the wealth. Separating facts from myths about American slavery 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z FORGOTTEN, it seems, are his tweets calling them “cowards” and his Facebook post likening them to slaveholders. Donald Trump’s reset on Islam 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor, a slaveholder from Louisiana, who had achieved national prominence as a military hero in the Mexican-American War. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Southern cities are littered with statues of Confederate leaders and slaveholders. Why “Eugene Onegin” resonates in Charleston 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z “Freesoilers and abolitionists are the only true friends of the South; slaveholders and slave-breeders are downright enemies of their own section,” Helper unabashedly declared in The Impending Crisis. Confederate Monuments and the Forgotten Warning of a Crisis to Come 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z The fact that one-quarter of the southern population were slaveholders is still shocking to many. Separating facts from myths about American slavery 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z That it was a common practice among slaveholders did not make it any less reprehensible than it is now. Opinion | Forget ‘context.’ Jefferson knew what he was doing was wrong. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The Free-Soil Party attracted northern Democrats who supported the Wilmot Proviso, northern Whigs who rejected Taylor because he was a slaveholder, former members of the Liberty Party, and other abolitionists. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Wisconsin’s first territorial governor, Henry Dodge, was one of the slaveholders in the lead industry. Wisconsin students document African-American mining history 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z And so, when Abraham Lincoln’s Republicans won the White House and Congress, rich slaveholders fled the Union. Confederate Monuments and the Forgotten Warning of a Crisis to Come 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z They may choose to close Mount Vernon and Monticello because George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were slaveholders. Opinion | Removing Confederate memorials won’t make America great 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z In Boles’s “full-scale biography,” Jefferson is presented to us “in all his guises: politician, diplomat, party leader, executive; architect, musician, oenophile, gourmand, traveler; inventor, historian, political theorist; land owner, farmer, slaveholder; and son, father, grandfather.” Opinion | The complex Thomas Jefferson in his place and time 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z For southern voters, the slaveholder Taylor appeared the natural choice. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Revolution, this argument might run, was a needless and brutal bit of slaveholders’ panic mixed with Enlightenment argle-bargle, producing a country that was always marked for violence and disruption and demagogy. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Page said the sections on Russia in Obama’s February 2015 national security strategy “closely parallel an 1850 publication that offered guidance to slaveholders on how to produce the ‘ideal slave’”. Former Trump adviser Carter Page left firm in 1998 amid alleged concern over 'pro-Kremlin' views 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Enslaved people were given one day off a year and used this to celebrate and reconnect to their African past, which the slaveholders tried in vain to destroy. Darcus Howe: ‘He translated the anger of street protests into political action’ 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Many of the Founders had been internally conflicted slaveholders. Opinion | Trump has picked a deeply disturbing hero 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z For many thousands of freedom- seekers, escaping the United States completely by going to southern Ontario, Canada, where slavery had been abolished, offered the best chance of a better life beyond the reach of slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z States’ rights is making a comeback, but this time it’s progressives, not slaveholders or white supremacists, raising the cry. Opinion | Liberals are learning to love states’ rights 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The home once belonged to Spires Boling, a slaveholder and carpenter. Holly Springs museum shares NAACP co-founder’s legacy 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z The first is essentially a spy yarn involving a Virginia slaveholder and Confederate agent named Miss Ford, who manages to insinuate herself into the Lincoln White House and then fall in love with the President. George Saunders Gets in Lincoln’s Head 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z It would be nice if we spent at least as much time talking about how the electoral college, a bizarre institution originally designed to protect the power of slaveholders, perverts democracy. Putin didn't win this election for Trump. Hillary Clinton did | Doug Henwood 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z By the 1850s, some abolitionists advocated the use of violence against slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z However, it is hard to escape that in honoring Washington, Maryland is paying tribute to a slaveholder. Tubman and Douglass statues would write a new chapter in state history 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Author, diplomat, autodidact, university founder, polyglot, governor, president — and also slaveholder. TRAVEL: Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello provides peek into complicated president 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Unfortunately for the slaveholders, the abolitionists happened to be holding their annual convention in Boston, where the trial was held. To resist a Trump presidency, ask: “What would the abolitionists do?” 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Army, more celebrated officers, including Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, would have faced far greater obstacles in suppressing the slaveholders’ rebellion. The man behind the massive logistics of the Union army 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The growing political movement to address the issue of slavery stiffened the resolve of southern slaveholders to defend themselves and their society at all costs. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “Electoral college will forever tip balance to rural/conservative/‘white’/older voters — a concession to slaveholders originally,” author Joyce Carol Oates wrote on Twitter. The Electoral College is hated by many, so why does it endure? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In defeating the slaveholders’ rebellion in the South, the federal government began to turn itself into a nation-state. America Is Better Without Borders 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The outstanding example is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which overrode personal liberty laws in the northern states and required federal marshals to assist slaveholders in capturing runaway slaves. When slaveholders controlled the government 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z “Even though he was a slaveholder at the time . something led him to think beyond it,” said Nelson, who believes the “ideological origins” for the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery came from the declaration. Exhibit has original draft of Declaration of Independence 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Some slaveholders chose to keep the news from enslaved people. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z For another thing, a primary goal of the trials and executions that took place following the uprising was to lessen the impact on white slaveholders, not to achieve justice. Nat Turner and the Forgotten Women Who Resisted Slavery 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z You see, despite his beliefs in personal liberty, Jefferson was a slaveholder. Alaska editorials 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes we imagine Southern slaveholders like Calhoun as isolated elites, barricaded in the parlors of their plantation homes. When slaveholders controlled the government 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Generations earlier, the land was home to the tobacco plantation of George Washington Young, the largest slaveholder in the District. A Washington, D.C., sidewalk tour of slavery and segregation 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z But American slaveholders in Texas distrusted the Mexican government and wanted Texas to be a new U.S. slave state. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z It's a common assumption that African-American families carry the slaveholder's name, but in fact slaves were given names, or chose them, for a wide variety of reasons, she says. How do you trace ancestors who were slaves? - BBC News 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Where Jefferson was a slaveholder, Seward was a liberator working alongside Abraham Lincoln. Alaska editorials 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Really, though, the book is less about whether slavery was or was not “modern,” and more about the fact that leading slaveholders believed it was. When slaveholders controlled the government 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z In March at Harvard University, the law school’s dean endorsed retiring the school’s famous symbolic shield because it was based on the family crest of an 18th-century slaveholder named Isaac Royall Jr. Georgetown joins Brown, U-Va. and others in looking anew at slavery 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z In this climate of opinion, voters in 1844 elected James K. Polk, a slaveholder from Tennessee, because he vowed to annex Texas as a new slave state and take Oregon. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Officials at Harvard Law School moved to ax the school's official symbol, modeled on the family crest of a slaveholder, after students and faculty argued it no longer reflected the school's values. Georgetown University's Quest for Atonement 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z American Jesuits were neither accidental nor inconsequential slaveholders. When enslaved people sued Georgetown’s founders for freedom 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Especially in popular discussions, slaveholders are often seen as advocates of small government and states’ rights. When slaveholders controlled the government 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z For example, on Feb. 10, 2015, he compared the 2015 National Security Strategy rationale for imposing sanctions on Russia to an 1850 publication offering slaveholders guidance on how to produce “the ideal slave.” Trump adviser’s public comments, ties to Moscow stir unease in both parties 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z His ideas were very controversial in the 1840s, however, because his proposals would prevent American slaveholders from bringing what they viewed as their lawful property, enslaved people, into the western lands. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Wood and the Democratic machine sided with the slaveholders; they wanted to keep Southern cotton flowing through New York ports. An Independent London? 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In detailing the horrors of slavery, whippings, family separations and backbreaking labor, they provided an effective riposte to the proslavery argument that painted a picture of benevolent slaveholders and contented slaves. What You Still Don't Know About Abolitionists 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z What slaveholders said, over and over again, was that “modern civilization” and African slavery were fundamentally compatible. When slaveholders controlled the government 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The $750,000 exhibition, Lives Bound Together, will explore hard truths about Washington's life as a slaveholder, including an acknowledgement that Washington's adopted son likely fathered a child with one of the family's slaves. Mount Vernon exhibit looks at Washington as slaveholder 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In the Deep South, an elite group of slaveholders gained new wealth from cotton. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The $750,000 exhibition, Lives Bound Together, will explore hard truths about Washington’s life as a slaveholder, including an acknowledgement that Washington’s adopted son likely fathered a child with one of the family’s slaves. Mount Vernon exhibit looks at Washington as slaveholder 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Stowe listed the narratives from which she had drawn material in her Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin when slaveholders and critics challenged her portrayal of slavery. What You Still Don't Know About Abolitionists 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Never mind Jefferson was a slaveholder or the overwhelming evidence that he repeatedly impregnated Sally Hemings. It's Time to Ditch the $2 Bill 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The history of the early to mid-19th century is a litany of debates, protests and compromises that sought to somehow settle the conflict between slaveholders and abolitionists. Professor’s television program highlights historical events 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z South Carolinian Nathaniel Heyward, a wealthy rice planter and member of the aristocratic gentry, came from an established family and sat atop the pyramid of southern slaveholders. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Harvard renamed its “house masters” faculty deans, and changed its law-school seal, which originated as a slaveholder’s coat of arms. The New Activism of Campus Life 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Long before the booming of guns, the enslaved and their allies were involved in a long-drawn out battle with slaveholders. What You Still Don't Know About Abolitionists 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z He was the most influential mouthpiece for slaveholders of the time. Editorials from around New England 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Franklin, like many other founding fathers, was once a slaveholder himself before he became involved in the abolitionist movement. Yale Defies Calls to Rename Calhoun College 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z That slaveholders put them out into the fields, where they frequently performed work traditionally thought of as male, reflected little the ideal image of gentleness and delicacy reserved for White women. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Miranda tweeted last June, referring to Jackson’s ignominious history as a slaveholder and the signer of the Indian Removal Act in 1830, which enabled the horrors of the Trail of Tears. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Even slaveholders were aware of a contradiction between the nation’s founding principles and the practice of holding human beings in bondage. How liberals invented segregation: The real history of race, equality and our Founding Fathers 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The intemperate Andrew Jackson, an unapologetic slaveholder, hated banks, anyway. Stop clinging to the Founding Fathers: The Andrew Jackson/Hamilton/Tubman debate is really about honest history 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z And, sure, it’s great news that the defiant, brave and inspiring abolitionist will replace slaveholder Andrew Jackson on the currency of America’s ATMs. Harriet Tubman will be on the $20 bill but still doesn’t rate a statue in the Capitol 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z While some free Black people achieved economic prosperity and even became slaveholders themselves, the vast majority found themselves restricted by the same White-supremacist assumptions upon which the institution of slavery was based. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z She will bump Andrew Jackson, the former president and slaveholder, to the back of the currency. A woman will be on the $20 bill. But she's still likely to earn fewer than men | Angelina Chapin 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was a slaveholder whose major legislative accomplishment resulted in the relocation and death of thousands of Native Americans. As Andrew Jackson Fades, a Look at How He Ended Up on Money Far from the slaveholders being rewarded, however, this policy reimbursed them for only 44 percent of their worth as measured in the economy of that time, hardly the Fat City described in the op-ed. Paying off slaveholders would have been better than fighting the Civil War 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The District was the only jurisdiction in the nation where slaveholders were compensated for emancipated slaves when Abraham Lincoln signed the act, almost nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation. D.C.’s grim, unfinished business, 154 years after emancipation 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The southern states also rejected Crittenden’s attempts at compromise, because it would prevent slaveholders from taking their human chattel north of the 36°30′ U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Page, an investment firm managing partner, wrote a bizarre blog post last year, ostensibly about U.S.-Russia relations, but comparing the U.S. to slaveholders and citing the Kanye West track “New Slaves.” Here's who Donald Trump is taking foreign policy advice from By any objective standard, these slaveholders were the masters of America. How the Republican Party’s Founders Defeated Xenophobia 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Like today’s Republicans, slaveholders advanced the elitist version of America when they realized that they no longer controlled a majority of the popular vote. This war is for America’s soul: Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and how wealthy white elites protect themselves 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Earlier in March, the prestigious university decided to drop the 80-year-old coat of arms of its law school, because it featured the family crest of a slaveholder who was an early donor to the institution. Harvard to honor slaves who worked on campus in 1700s 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z His recognition of slavery in the South did nothing to mollify slaveholders, however, because Lincoln also pledged to keep slavery from expanding into the new western territories. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Harvard University is retiring the official shield of its law school following complaints over its ties to an 18th-century slaveholder. Harvard agrees to retire law school shield tied to slavery 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Leaders of the new Republican Party — another would-be successor to the Whigs — convinced Know Nothing voters that slaveholders posed a greater threat to the republic than immigrants. How the Republican Party’s Founders Defeated Xenophobia 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z When poor southern whites started to bridle at this system, slaveholders shored up their loyalty by harping on the racial inferiority of black slaves. This war is for America’s soul: Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and how wealthy white elites protect themselves 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The emblem was modeled on the coat of arms of the family of Isaac Royall, who media reports said was the son of an Antiguan slaveholder and endower of the first law professorship at Harvard. Harvard to scrap law school seal associated with slavery 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Residents in the north and west of the state, where few slaveholders resided, rejected secession. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Royall inherited his estate and many slaves from his father, a slaveholder who was known for his cruelty. Harvard agrees to retire law school shield tied to slavery 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Harvard law school will remove its official shield following months of protest at the symbol’s ties to an 18th-century slaveholder. Harvard law school drops official shield over slavery links 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The seal includes the coat of arms of 18th Century college donor Isaac Royall, who as well as establishing the college's first professorship in law, was a notoriously brutal slaveholder. Harvard abolishes 'master' in titles in slavery row - BBC News 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z |
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