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Did You Know Penn`s Landing was one of 175 ports of entry for Africans during the transatlantic human trade? August 5th, Ancestral Remembrance Day!
The Philadelphia Middle Passage Ceremony and Port Marker Project is leading the movement to conduct an annual Ancestral Remembrance Ceremony at Penn's Landing. The purpose of the ceremony is to acknowledge Penn's Landing, and other locations on the Delaware River, as one of 175 ports of entry for Africans during the transatlantic human trade; to commemorate the nearly 2 million Africans who peri
02/27/2020
The Lost Story of Julia Chinn > KET Julia Chinn had a major impact on politics in Kentucky and America in the 1800s, but few people will recognize her name or the role she played. “She’s literally been …
02/22/2020
Convict Leasing
Henry Louis Gates Jr on Twitter “The pipeline from prison to profits in the United States has deep roots. In this episode of , we explore the topic of convict leasing and its lasting impact on our criminal justice system today. https://t.co/oscoKgIfnk”
02/07/2020
Berbice Slave Uprising -
23 February 1763, slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice (Guyana) revolted.
1763 Berbice Slave Revolt Part 1 A 30-minute documentary on one of the greatest events in Guyana's history -- produced by Sherwood Lowe and David Granger.
02/06/2020
November 7, 1841, 128 enslaved Africans took over "The Creole" and sailed to Freedom.
When Enslaved People Commandeered a Ship and Hightailed it to Freedom in the Bahamas It's been called the most successful slave rebellion in U.S. history
01/31/2020
Between Two Worlds: Black Women and the Fight for Voting Rights (U.S. National Park Service) Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
01/30/2020
01/24/2020
Professor Sir Geoffrey Palmer on Scotland's colonial past.
Professor Sir Geoffrey Palmer lecture at EIS HQ Professor Sir Geoffrey Palmer gives a lecture entitled "Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future" at EIS HQ for Black History Month 2019. The lecture ta...
3D video reconstruction of the slave vessel L'Aurore (Voyage ID: 32359). Thanks, A. Rothman
Trans-Atlantic - Slave Ship in 3D Video Drawing on extensive archival records, this digital memorial allows analysis of the ships, traders, and captives in the Atlantic slave trade. The three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information. You can read...
01/23/2020
Ida B. Wells' Battle to Uncover the Truth - Humankind Public Radio Born to enslaved parents on a Mississippi plantation during the Civil War, Ida B. Wells emerged as a powerful investigative journalist. She overcame death threats and published widely in her quest to document the domestic terrorism against African Americans that came to be known as lynching. Ida Wel...
01/09/2020
These Divers Search For Slave Shipwrecks and Discover Their Ancestors | National Geographic Meet a group of vibrant scuba divers determined to find, document and positively identify slave shipwrecks. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ...
01/08/2020
Building a digital archive for decaying paper documents, preserving centuries of records about enslaved people Centuries' worth of important information is stored on paper – which can decay, burn or get eaten by pests. Peek inside the process of making all that data digital.
11/02/2019
Black history and a trip to Angola: Wanda Tucker's search for answers Angola was barely mentioned in the history of the slave trade. USA TODAY invited Wanda Tucker there to search for her roots.
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