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22 Feb 2024, 9:38 am
In those essays, I took the position that there is at the very least no particular reason to freak out about changing the names of buildings, streets, cities, or anything else, much less to worry about supposedly "suppressing history" by removing statues and other iconography honoring slavers, mass murderers, and traitors. [read post]
19 Sep 2023, 6:25 am
Approximately 1,432 Africans were liberated from the slavers and 295 Africans died due to diseases and the conditions on the slavers. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 12:30 am
Introduction In his introduction, the Rt Hon The Lord Boateng CVO, Chair of the ACRJ comments: “Slavers and Slave Owners continue to be celebrated and memorialised in many Cathedrals, Chapels and Churches. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 3:25 am
Forget about his contributions to conservation because he was a slaver at a time when it was not unusual. [read post]
3 Nov 2022, 6:20 am
In the affirmative action context, state universities give preferences to all black applicants, even if they were born in the Caribbean or Africa–and note that African immigrants may be descendants of slavers rather than slaves. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 11:34 am
I also learned Columbus was a slaver and a murderer, which by that moment in my education was unsurprising to me. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 3:29 pm
Dustbins Of History: Richmond Law School dropping slaver's name from the institution. [read post]
3 Sep 2022, 11:37 pm
” Kaya Burgess, The Times: Memorial to slaver who quashed revolt will be removed from church: on Arlow Ch’s judgment in Re St Peter Dorchester. [read post]
9 May 2022, 7:30 am
In fact, as she argues, forced pregnancy was key to the historic labor system of slavery in the United States — the children of enslaved mothers were themselves enslaved, and once the importation of African people for purposes of enslavement was banned in the United States in 1808, it was how slavers kept the system going and increased their own wealth, including by raping enslaved women. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 4:19 pm
This past Tuesday (on September 14), Jake Brooks and David Gamage jointly appeared at the colloquium (Gamage by Zoom) for a discussion of their paper, The Indirect Tax Canon, Apportionment, and Drafting a Constitutional Wealth Tax. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 3:48 pm
Harvard Loses 'Actively Honoring Slaver' Look: A new coat of arms for the school. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 12:01 am
” In a case he heard riding circuit in Georgia about several captured slave trading ships, he found that a U.S. court could not enforce laws banning the slave trade against foreign slavers, and the slave traders were entitled to the return of their property. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 12:40 pm
, and the Mysterious Disappearance of John ProudfootEarly Texans couldn't get enough slave patrols but didn't want to pay for themRepublic of Texas passed law against being free and blackSlave Patrol Research Update and Request for Research AdviceA Texan Huck Finn, Proletarian Slaves, Dreaming of Mexico, and the Habeas Revelation: Lessons from runaway slave storiesCan police patrol functions be separated from racist slaver legacy? [read post]
20 Sep 2020, 1:19 pm
Did early policing begin with slave patrols? [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 6:12 am
Though it doesn't mention her or her family, the Seguin Gazette-Enterprise in 1996 ran an historical profile of George Holloman, the slaver and patrolman who became her new master. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 11:33 am
(Still cheaper than traveling out of town and paying courthouse rates for copies.)So here are my next research steps: 1) Transcribe data from slaver charts from my phone photos, 2) Make a comprehensive list of Guadalupe-County slave-patrol participants from handwritten commissioners court minutes, 3) Cross reference slave patrol list with Slave Transactions book for leads and spell checks for names, 4) Review runaway slave notices related to Guadalupe County, 5) Search slave-patrol name… [read post]
6 Jul 2020, 10:35 am
First the white slavers stole the freedom of Africans. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 4:39 am
Surely those who were brought here by slavers, but they’re long gone. [read post]
26 Aug 2019, 3:47 pm
’ ” Renoir took such presumptuous, slavering joy in looking at naked women—who in his paintings were always creamy or biscuit white, often with strawberry accents, and ideally blond—that, Lucy goes on to argue, the tactility of the later nudes, with brushstrokes like roving fingers, unsettles any kind of gaze, including the male. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 6:51 am
Yesterday at the colloquium, Steve Bank of UCLA Law School (a former Chicago student of mine, way back in the day) presented a tax history paper concerning an interesting episode in modern U.S. tax law: the failed effort by the Kennedy Administration, as part of what became the 1962 tax act, to enact withholding for people’s dividend and interest income, in response to substantial under-reporting (especially for dividends). [read post]
