#Slaveryarchive

Daniel Domingues

dandomingx

A lot has been said about 1619, but not enough about 1520, the year of the first documented voyage of a ship disembarking enslaved Africans in the Americas. #twitterstorians #africanstudies

P. Gabrielle Foreman

profgabrielle

David Drake is rarely mentioned alongside early Black poets: Wheatley, Lucy Terry, Horton and Hammond (see below). Often called "Dave the Potter," he's rarely recognized as an enslaved *writer* and

John Harris

drjohnaeharris

What was Walt Whitman doing on a slave ship in 1856? /Thread Whitman had recently published the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Reviews were mixed. He was struggling financially.

Thomas A. Foster

ThomasAFoster

As Confederate statues come down, I'm reminded of what still needs to go up. Encourage @Reagan_Airport & @Amazon to memorialize those enslaved at Abingdon: "The Virginia portion of Amazon’s HQ2

Sharon Leon

sharonmleon

For #ScholarStrike I made a short video about universities' involvement in slavery: https://youtu.be/VDmy9JcnRbc I hope it will be useful as we think about racial inequality and ongoing violence. This video

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