by lindaoppenheim | Sep 3, 2022
Genealogists and family historians alike have spent decades looking for a tried and true method for unearthing slaveholders of those enslaved prior to 1865. Learn how three crucial record sets (Civil War Pensions, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Probates/Successions) can...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 19, 2022
DIVERSITY UNITED presents Ahavas Sholom’s (Newark) Composer Artist In Residence, award winning composer and writer, Walter Robinson, talking about the American Slavery school curriculum he created. New Jersey law requires the teaching of American Slavery via...
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...
