Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif. - October 15, 2009
They say you won't get anywhere in life until you know where you've come from. But for the countless number of African Americans in this country, the simple act of knowing one's history is a complicated and painful notion. Painful in the sheer sense that through the bondages of slavery, we have been literally stripped of our roots, and can only trace back to an era of America's past that most of us would prefer to believe never existed. But it did exist, and it was ugly, and it's about time w...
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Michigan Chronicle - October 28, 2009
What is amazing about John Brown and the Harper's Perry raid is that the U.S. has never come to a consensus as to how to assess either. John Brown made a name for himself in military action in the pre-Civil War civil war that took place in Kansas. Pro-slavery forces fought anti-slavery forces, and these actions were not debating sessions. John Brown and his men were completely intolerant of pro-slavery forces and were always prepared to wipe them out. As a result some sections of the U.S. hav...
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New York Amsterdam News - September 10, 2009
Writes Kinealy, professor of history at Drew University, "In 1875, centenary celebrations for The liberator (who died in 1847) took place throughout the world. Some of the largest were located in the United States . . .O'[Connell] was remembered as the most important abolitionist of the age. In Ireland and Britain, Daniel O'Connell is remembered as the Liberator of Irish Catholics, but he also played a significant role in liberating slaves in the British Empire and in North America. It is in ...
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Business Wire - January 29, 2009
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"These records cover subjects including slavery, military service, and issues facing African ...
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Human Events - July 20, 2009
Justice would demand that all the perpetrators - mat includes slave owners, and African and Arab slave sellers - make compensatory reparation payments to victims. Since slaves, slave owners and slave sellers are no longer with us, such compensation is beyond our reach and a matter to be settled in the world beyond.
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Journalism History - Vol. 35 Nbr. 2, July 2009
Risley sorts out at least the major subtexts of abolition as they emerged from the various factions that in many current works result in an alphabet soup of abolitionist groups, including the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), the American and Foreign AntiSlavery Society (AFASS), and the New England Anti-Slavery Society (NEASS), not to mention some other groups such as the Western Anti-Slavery Society, the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, and a multitude of women's groups (e.g., the ...
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New York Amsterdam News - September 24, 2009
Watching O'[Kelly] perform the multiple roles his production calls for was definitely marvelous. Although he is clearly white, when he performs as [Frederick Douglass], you are not focused on the color of his skin, but on the depth of his performance. There is a moment at the end of the production, when one realizes why O'Kelly's performance of Douglass is so acceptable and brilliant, as he quotes Douglass and says, "People here in Ireland measure and esteem men according to their moral and i...
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The Journal of African American History - Vol. 91 Nbr. 4, September 2006
... Professor Hill's suggestion that I use the opportunity to reflect on the current state of scholarship on slavery appealed to me because for decades much of my ......-the clash of cultures that took place in American slavery--was an added incentive to take up that subject. ...
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Boston Banner, The - November 05, 2009
"This legislation," [Byron Rushing] explained, "is designed to have the Commonwealth engage in the conversation and to look and explain to people what slavery was in Massachusetts and the participation of institutions and the government in supporting slavery and supporting the slave trade."
"There's been a lot of work done in England that's raised the idea of how corporations and governments were involved in the slave trade," he said. "In the U.S. for the last 10 to 12 years we've had discuss...
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