by lindaoppenheim | Aug 31, 2022 | history, Video
Streaming now on the NJ PBS website: “The Price of Silence” Parts 1 &2 Two and a half years in the making, this Truehart Productions documentary fills a gap in NJ history by telling the little-known story of slavery across the state. “New Jersey...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 26, 2022 | News
Harvard University published the report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery that documents that “[d]uring the 17th and 18th centuries, the sale and trafficking of human beings—in slavery—and the industries rooted in the labor of...
by lindaoppenheim | May 26, 2019 | Documents, Website
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln recently debuted an online database of more than 500 court cases in which enslaved persons had sued to gain their freedom. The project collected, digitized, and makes accessible...
by lindaoppenheim | May 8, 2019 | Opinion
Denial that slavery was absolutely foundational to the birth and early development of the United States explains the lack of a “national monument, memorial, or official recognition of the institution” and resistance to reparations, Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 20, 2019 | Events, Speech
Yogita Goyal, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, UCLA will speak on Wednesday, April 24 at 4:30 pm on the Princeton University campus, Chancellor Green 103.
