HAPPY HUMP DAY, P.O.U.! CAPTAIN CUDJOE … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions II – The Rebels
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Tuesday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions II – The Rebels
GOOD MORNING, P.O.U.! Louis Delgrès … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions II – The Rebels
Thursday Open Thread: Lies My Teacher Told Me
Today's thread will focus on the invisibility of racism in history textbooks. What your history teacher told you: Over the years white America has told itself varying stories about the enslavement of blacks. In each of the last two centuries America's ,most popular novel was set in slavery- Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gone With the Wind. Until the Civil Rights … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Lies My Teacher Told Me
Friday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Incident in Troy, New York In the spring of 1860, Harriet Tubman was requested by Mr. Gerrit Smith to go to Boston to attend a large Anti-Slavery meeting. On her way, she stopped at Troy to visit a cousin, and while there the colored people were one day startled with the intelligence that a fugitive slave, by the name of Charles Nalle, had been followed by his master (who was … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Thursday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad
Goof Morning POU! Today we look feature another conductor of The Underground Railroad. As an 8-year-old slave, John P. Parker was taken from his mother and chained to an elderly African-American man. The man and the boy were forced to walk about 100 miles in 1835 from Norfolk, Va., to Richmond, where their new owners lived. Not long after that, Parker learned that the old … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: The Underground Railroad