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Image of the Day: Fugitive Slave Act Convention, 1850
If you look closely at this rare photograph, you can see Frederick Douglass. If you are interested in the history of the “Great Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Law Convention,” click here to learn more: On...
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Image of the Day: Slave Boys
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Photographs and Prints Division (NYPL Digital Collection)
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Image of the Day: Peonage
I found this interesting comic at the National Archives site. “AND WHILE YOU’RE IN THERE, FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT A FELLOW NAMED ABE LINCOLN”, 1943 For those who are interested in some background...
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Image of the Day: Runaway Slave Ad (Shows Intersections of Slavery & Prison)
I found this ad and think that it conveys so much about the cruelty & horror of slavery. It also illustrates the intersections between slavery and incarceration. From the NYPL Digital Collection...
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Nobody Matters Less Than Black Girls…
These are some impressions…I am thinking through recent experiences. The saddest fact I’ve learned is: Nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody. – Jim DeRogatis This Jim...
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Image of the Day: Fugitive Slave
Slave-owner shooting a fugitive slave. (1853) – Creator: Mason, Walter George, 1820-1866 — Engraver – Source: Five hundred thousand strokes for freedom; a series of anti-slavery tracts, of which half a...
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The Un-Mothering of Black Women…
Note: It’s Mother’s Day. For several years now, I’ve been considering the idea of un-mothering. I share my inchoate thoughts here today. They are part & parcel of my ongoing consideration of how...
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Image of the Day: Map – Status of slavery in the United States, 1775-1865....
Status of slavery in the United States, 1775-1865. (1893)
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Image of the Day: Report on employment of slaves in public works and chain...
Interesting 19th century manuscript from New Orleans specifically listing the names of slaves that were used in public works projects and on chain gangs. The list includes men and women. It also...
View Article‘I do as I am bid’ or why we can’t reform policing…
The ACLU released a new report about the increasing and excessive militarization of the police. Radley Balko offers a good summary and analysis of the report here. He concludes that this issue is...
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