GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! NEW YORK SLAVE REVOLT OF 1712 … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Slave Rebellions III
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Saturday Open Thread: Ebony & Ivy – How Slavery Built The Ivy League
In 2013, Craig Steven Wilder's book Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. Wilder is an MIT professor of American history and has taught at Williams College and Dartmouth College. Many of America's revered colleges and universities-from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, Williams … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Ebony & Ivy – How Slavery Built The Ivy League
Friday Open Thread: Ripped From Slavery – Modern Corporations Built By Slaves
Finally, Friday! Many of the USA's largest newspaper companies own dailies that were vital to the slave economy. Antebellum-era newspapers ran ads that promised reward money for the capture of escaped slaves, offered slaves for sale or sought slaves for purchase. "Cash for Negroes" proclaimed an 1856 ad in The Sun, today The Baltimore Sun, owned by Tribune Co. "Stop the … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Ripped From Slavery – Modern Corporations Built By Slaves
Thursday Open Thread: Ripped From Slavery – Modern Corporations Built By Slaves
The very name "Wall Street" is born of slavery, with enslaved Africans building a wall in 1653 to protect Dutch settlers from Indian raids. This walkway and wooden fence, made up of pointed logs and running river to river, later was known as Wall Street, the home of world finance. Enslaved and free Africans were largely responsible for the construction of the early city, first … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: Ripped From Slavery – Modern Corporations Built By Slaves
Wednesday Open Thread: Ripped From Slavery – Modern Corporations Built By Slaves
Textile maker WestPoint Stevens can trace its roots to the pre-Civil War era through Pepperell Manufacturing, a company founded in 1851 and bought by WestPoint in 1965. Two Pepperell histories describe the company's ties to Southern planters, who supplied Pepperell with cotton and were among the buyers of its rough-milled fabric, called "Negro cloth." Pepperell's Rock River … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Ripped From Slavery – Modern Corporations Built By Slaves