Thread by @sharonmleon, For #ScholarStrike I made a short video about universities' involvement in slavery: [...]

For #ScholarStrike I made a short video about universities' involvement in slavery:
I hope it will be useful as we think about racial inequality and ongoing violence.

This video draws on lots of excellent current work on universities and slavery, which is sited in the bibliography linked at the end: http://bit.ly/UNIVERSITIES-SLAVERY. But, here are some links:
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The Princeton & Slavery Project offers rich scholarship & robust digital archive & is the excellent work of Martha Sandweiss and a passel of post-docs & graduate students: https://slavery.princeton.edu
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https://slavery.princeton.edu

Early medical science & the cadaver trade is documented in the Columbia and Slavery project ( https://columbiaandslavery.columbia.edu/ ), & the Penn & Slavery Project ( http://pennandslaveryproject.org/ ).
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Both draw on Daina Remy Berry’s book A Price for a Pound of Flesh (2017): https://bookshop.org/books/the-price-for-their-pound-of-flesh-the-value-of-the-enslaved-from-womb-to-grave-in-the-building-of-a-nation/9780807067147
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building...

Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned...

https://bookshop.org/books/the-price-for-their-pound-of-flesh-the-value-of-the-enslaved-from-womb-to-grave-in-the-building-of-a-nation/9780807067147

The information about the University of South Carolina is drawn from a very well-done public history grad student project ( https://delphi.tcl.sc.edu/library/digital/slaveryscc/index.html).
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Read about the work of the USC project in the 3 part bloc series @NCPH History@Work: https://ncph.org/history-at-work/revealing-slaverys-legacy-part-1/, https://ncph.org/history-at-work/revealing-slaverys-legacy-part-2/, https://ncph.org/history-at-work/revealing-slaverys-legacy-part-3/.
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Revealing slavery's legacy at a public university in the south (P

In the final post of this series, we consider how the "Slavery at South Carolina College" project has been received. The most important effects have been local. The website has acted as a ca

https://ncph.org/history-at-work/revealing-slaverys-legacy-part-1/

There is ample information on the sale of the enslaved people owned by the Maryland Province Jesuits in the Georgetown Slavery Archive ( http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/ ), a project spearheaded by @arothmanhistory
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Here is a link to my own developing project that focuses on the enslaved community itself, and is in the process of using digital history methods to represent their experiences: http://jesuitplantationproject.org/s/jpp/page/welcome
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. @HilaryGreen77 is the source of the important information on the University of Alabama. Check out here Hallowed Grounds Project: https://hgreen.people.ua.edu/hallowed-grounds-project.html
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Dozens more institutions are doing this research on their ties to slavery. Universities Studying Slavery, hosted by @slaveryuva, offers a place for those doing that research to gather & share: https://slavery.virginia.edu/universities-studying-slavery/
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Universities Studying Slavery

Universities Studying Slavery (USS) is dedicated to organizing multi-institutional collaboration as part of an effort to facilitate mutual support in the pursuit of common goals around the core the…

https://slavery.virginia.edu/universities-studying-slavery/

I’m working on a new project with @RareUVA @gtownlibrary and @omeka to help describe events related to slavery and higher ed in a common way: http://onthesegrounds.org
#campushistories #ScholarStrike 11/15

This historical work is part of a much larger #campushistories movement, and understandably the important research reaches far beyond slavery.
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The Scarlet and Black project at Rutgers, guided by Deborah Gray White and Marisa Fuentes, began its investigation with slavery & has continued through Jim Crow & the Civil Rights Movement: https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/
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At the University of Minnesota, Riv Ellen Prell undertook research into the administration’s deeply racist and anti-Semitic activities in the mid-20thC: http://acampusdivided.umn.edu/
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A Campus Divided

Progressives, Anticommunists, Racism and Antisemitism at the University of Minnesota 1930-1942

http://acampusdivided.umn.edu/

There are so many other possible examples. So, dig in and get to know your own institutional histories! #campushistories #ScholarStrike 15/15

Finally, huge thanks to @AntheaButler and @TheTattooedProf and everyone who worked to make #ScholarStrike possible 16/15

One more link. Here is a library of all the current universities studying slavery digital projects: https://www.zotero.org/sleon/collections/LWDMLBDU #scholarstrike #campushistories 17/15

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