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Full-Text Articles in History
A Short Account Of That Part Of Africa Inhabited By The Negroes, Anthony Benezet, Paul Royster , Ed.
A Short Account Of That Part Of Africa Inhabited By The Negroes, Anthony Benezet, Paul Royster , Ed.
Zea E-Books in American Studies
Anthony Benezet scoured the available English literature of colonial exploitation for evidence of the humanity of the trafficked Africans and the inhumanity of the European traders in human beings. He compiled and published this Short Account in 1762 to present the case for termination of the trans-Atlantic transportation of kidnapped Africans, for abolition of slavery and the slave trade, and for emancipation of the enslaved persons held in bondage in North America and elsewhere. Drawing on Scottish moral philosophy, British Whig ideology, and, most importantly, on New Testament gospel teachings, Benezet presented both reasoned and impassioned appeals for the recognition …
A Language For The World: The Standardization Of Swahili, Morgan J. Robinson
A Language For The World: The Standardization Of Swahili, Morgan J. Robinson
Ohio University Press Open Access Books
This intellectual history of Standard Swahili explores the long-term, intertwined processes of standard making and community creation in the historical, political, and cultural contexts of East Africa and beyond.
Morgan J. Robinson argues that the portability of Standard Swahili has contributed to its wide use not only across the African continent but also around the globe. The book pivots on the question of whether standardized versions of African languages have empowered or oppressed. It is inevitable that the selection and promotion of one version of a language as standard—a move typically associated with missionaries and colonial regimes—negatively affected those …
Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog Of Published Accounts By Africans Enslaved In The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog Of Published Accounts By Africans Enslaved In The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Faculty Books & Book Chapters
The importance of published accounts by African slave ship survivors is well-known but not their existence in large numbers. Fogleman and Hanserd catalog nearly five hundred discrete accounts and more than 2,500 printings of them over four centuries in numerous Atlantic languages. Short biographies of each African, print histories of the complete or partial life story. Five Hundred African Voices an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, students, and others wishing to study transatlantic slavery using African Voices.
Aunt Adeline, Ex-Slave Interview
Aunt Adeline, Ex-Slave Interview
Slave narratives supplemental materials
Interview of ex-slave "Aunt Adeline", by Zillah Cross Peel with the Work Projects Administration, about Aunt Adeline's life as a slave.
Bob Benford, Ex-Slave Interview
Bob Benford, Ex-Slave Interview
Slave narratives supplemental materials
Interview of ex-slave Bob Benford, by Bernice Bowden with the Work Projects Administration, about Benford's life as a slave.
Joseph Samuel Badgett, Ex-Slave Interview
Joseph Samuel Badgett, Ex-Slave Interview
Slave narratives supplemental materials
Interview of ex-slave Joseph Samuel Badgett, by Samuel S. Taylor with the Work Projects Administration, about Badgett's life as a slave.
William Brown, Ex-Slave Interview
William Brown, Ex-Slave Interview
Slave narratives supplemental materials
Interview of ex-slave William Brown, by Samuel S. Taylor with the Work Projects Administration, about Brown's life as a slave.
Will Baltimore, Ex-Slave Interview
Will Baltimore, Ex-Slave Interview
Slave narratives supplemental materials
Interview of ex-slave William Baltimore, by R.S. Taylor with the Work Projects Administration, about Baltimore's life as a slave.
History Of "Old Slave Mart", Shayla Tyson, Shanella Thompson, Nedjaina Jovin, Carolyn Jackson
History Of "Old Slave Mart", Shayla Tyson, Shanella Thompson, Nedjaina Jovin, Carolyn Jackson
History from Below: Memorialization Projects
After extensive amount of research we collectively agreed we wanted to showcase this history by taking the audience through a journey. A journey that would depicted the horror and pain enslaved Africans had to endure while being forced to migrate from their homes to a foreign place. After force migrating to “The New World” the enslaved people had to suffer through forced labor on plantations that would expect them to be die on in the next two years of their life. We wanted to make this memorial completely raw and uncut, adding on to a already existing place to hit …
Cartagena De Indias, Fabian Asdrubal, Gabriel Williams, Alvaro Regalado
Cartagena De Indias, Fabian Asdrubal, Gabriel Williams, Alvaro Regalado
History from Below: Memorialization Projects
This memorial depicts a pedestal which is supporting a wide pan of sugarcane and gold coins. At the bottom of the pedestal is a set of handcuffs that are wrapped around the pedestal. This memorial relates back to the overall project as it is a figurative representation of slavery in Colombia.
Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, And Land In Nineteenth-Century Georgia, Karen Cook Bell
Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, And Land In Nineteenth-Century Georgia, Karen Cook Bell
Books
An exploration of the political and social experiences of African Americans in transition from enslaved to citizen
Claiming Freedom is a noteworthy and dynamic analysis of the transition African Americans experienced as they emerged from Civil War slavery, struggled through emancipation, and then forged on to become landowners during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period in the Georgia lowcountry. Karen Cook Bell's work is a bold study of the political and social strife of these individuals as they strived for and claimed freedom during the nineteenth century.
Bell begins by examining the meaning of freedom through the delineation of acts of …
[Introduction To] The Thin Light Of Freedom: The Civil War And Emancipation In The Heart Of America, Edward L. Ayers
[Introduction To] The Thin Light Of Freedom: The Civil War And Emancipation In The Heart Of America, Edward L. Ayers
Bookshelf
A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective.
At the crux of America’s history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world, followed by a political reconstruction in which new constitutions established the fundamental rights of citizens for formerly enslaved people. Few people living in 1860 would have dared imagine either event, and yet, in retrospect, both seem to have been inevitable.
In a beautifully crafted narrative, Edward L. Ayers restores the drama of the unexpected to the history of the Civil War. …
Patterns Of Enslavement And Economic Oppression Of Central Virginia, Hannah Bedwell
Patterns Of Enslavement And Economic Oppression Of Central Virginia, Hannah Bedwell
Undergraduate Research Posters
I address how anthropologists can identify the patterns and development of slavery and economic oppression through archaeology and the visualization of Virginia enslavement. I focus on the enslaved people of James Madison's Montpelier. I use 3D modeling as a foundation for integrating enhanced visuals with the goal of presenting a tangible understanding of the enslaved individuals in relation to the artifacts and history of the archaeological sites. I intend to show a common theme in economic oppression by comparing modern themes in slavery and examining Fraser D. Neiman's synthesis of the evolutionary perspective of slavery, and how little has changed …
Slave Narratives Oral History Lesson Plan
Slave Narratives Oral History Lesson Plan
Lesson plans
This unit explores the value and shortcomings of using oral histories for historic record by examining ex-slave narratives relating to Arkansas.
This lesson plan was produced for 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade students, but may be altered by teachers to fit other grade levels.
Art, Artifact, Archive: African American Experiences In The Nineteenth Century, Shannon Egan, Lauren H. Roedner, Diane Brennan, Maura B. Conley, Abigail B. Conner, Nicole A. Conte, Victoria Perez-Zetune, Savannah Rose, Kaylyn L. Sawyer, Caroline M. Wood, Zoe C. Yeoh
Art, Artifact, Archive: African American Experiences In The Nineteenth Century, Shannon Egan, Lauren H. Roedner, Diane Brennan, Maura B. Conley, Abigail B. Conner, Nicole A. Conte, Victoria Perez-Zetune, Savannah Rose, Kaylyn L. Sawyer, Caroline M. Wood, Zoe C. Yeoh
Schmucker Art Catalogs
Angelo Scarlato’s extraordinary and vast collection of art and artifacts related to the Civil War, and specifically to the Battle of Gettysburg, the United States Colored Troops, slavery and the African American struggle for emancipation, citizenship and freedom has proved to be an extraordinary resource for Gettysburg College students. The 2012-14 exhibition in Musselman Library’s Special Collections, curated by Lauren Roedner ’13, entitled Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts of the Civil War Era and its corresponding catalogue provided a powerful and comprehensive historical narrative of the period.
This fall, students in my course at Gettysburg College “Art and Public …
Slavery, Agriculture, And Malaria In The Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly
Slavery, Agriculture, And Malaria In The Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly
Ohio University Press Open Access Books
In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system, Reilly argues, is the prevalence of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins, which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers. In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil.
This book synthesizes for the first time a body of …
Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts Of The Civil War Era, Lauren H. Roedner, Angelo Scarlato, Scott Hancock, Jordan G. Cinderich, Tricia M. Runzel, Avery C. Lentz, Brian D. Johnson, Lincoln M. Fitch, Michele B. Seabrook
Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts Of The Civil War Era, Lauren H. Roedner, Angelo Scarlato, Scott Hancock, Jordan G. Cinderich, Tricia M. Runzel, Avery C. Lentz, Brian D. Johnson, Lincoln M. Fitch, Michele B. Seabrook
Other Exhibits & Events
Based on the exhibit Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts of the Civil War Era, this book provides the full experience of the exhibit, which was on display in Special Collections at Musselman Library November 2012- December 2013. It also includes several student essays based on specific artifacts that were part of the exhibit.
Table of Contents:
Introduction Angelo Scarlato, Lauren Roedner ’13 & Scott Hancock
Slave Collars & Runaways: Punishment for Rebellious Slaves Jordan Cinderich ’14
Chancery Sale Poster & Auctioneer’s Coin: The Lucrative Business of Slavery Tricia Runzel ’13
Isaac J. Winters: An African American Soldier from Pennsylvania …
Glenn Ligon: Narratives, Shannon Egan, Kimberly Rae Connor
Glenn Ligon: Narratives, Shannon Egan, Kimberly Rae Connor
Schmucker Art Catalogs
The exhibition on display at Schmucker Art Gallery, a suite of nine prints entitled Narratives by prominent contemporary artist Glenn Ligon, has been made possible by a generous gift to Gettysburg College by Dr. Kimberly Rae Connor ’79. Ligon’s works have been exhibited widely at major museums, and Gettysburg College is fortunate to have the opportunity to engage with work that examines issues of race, sexuality, history and representation. The artist is well known for his use of quotations and texts from a variety of literary writers and cultural critics such as James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, bell hooks and Ralph …
Underground Railroad, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Underground Railroad, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Ethnic History
Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Oklahoma State University.
Fateful Lightning: A New History Of The Civil War And Reconstruction, Allen C. Guelzo
Fateful Lightning: A New History Of The Civil War And Reconstruction, Allen C. Guelzo
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the most heroic moments in American history and enshrined a galaxy of American heroes. Above all, it permanently ended the practice of slavery and proved, in an age of resurgent monarchies, that a liberal democracy could survive the most frightful of challenges.
In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning …
Ms-063: Melancthon E. Washburn Family Collection, Stephen H. Light
Ms-063: Melancthon E. Washburn Family Collection, Stephen H. Light
All Finding Aids
The Melancthon E. Washburn Papers consist primarily of correspondence between Washburn and his family members during the Civil War period. While the letters date anywhere from 1857 to 1883, most of them fall into the 1861 to 1865 time frame. The collection also consists of a wide range of miscellaneous items, including newspaper clippings collected into scrapbooks, the diary of Melancthon’s son William Washburn, wedding invitations, Confederate bonds and currency, and a public broadside advertising a slave auction.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include …
The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces Of An American Icon, Gabor Boritt
The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces Of An American Icon, Gabor Boritt
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
Nearly a century and a half after his death, Abraham Lincoln remains an intrinsic part of the American consciousness, yet his intentions as president and his personal character continue to stir debate.
Now, in The Lincoln Enigma, Gabor Boritt invites renowned Lincoln scholars, and rising new voices, to take a look at much-debated aspects of Lincoln's life, including his possible gay relationships, his plan to send blacks back to Africa, and his high-handed treatment of the Constitution. Boritt explores Lincoln's proposals that looked to a lily-white America. Jean Baker marvels at Lincoln's loves and marriage. David Herbert Donald highlights …
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 2, Nancy Kettering Frye, Jean-Paul Benowitz, Amos Long Jr., John A. Milbauer
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 2, Nancy Kettering Frye, Jean-Paul Benowitz, Amos Long Jr., John A. Milbauer
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• "An Uncommon Woman" in the Age of the Common Man: The Life and Times of Sarah Righter Major
• Maintaining Mennonite Identity: The Old Order Church in Pennsylvania and Virginia
• The End of an Era: The Last One-Room Public Schools in Lebanon County
• Pennsylvania Extended in the Cherokee Country: A Study of Log Architecture
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 1, Charles L. Blockson, Roland C. Barksdale-Hall, Jerrilyn Mcgregory, Terry G. Jordan
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 1, Charles L. Blockson, Roland C. Barksdale-Hall, Jerrilyn Mcgregory, Terry G. Jordan
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• "A Missing Link": The History of African Americans in Pennsylvania
• The Twin City Elks Lodge: A Unifying Force in Farrell's African American Community
• The Greening of Philadelphia
• The "Saddlebag" House Type and Pennsylvania Extended
Ida Crawford Stewart Papers - Accession 487, Ida Crawford Stewart, Estee Lauder, Crawford Family, Stewart Family, Nilson Family, Wade Family, Winthrop University, Winthrop Training School
Ida Crawford Stewart Papers - Accession 487, Ida Crawford Stewart, Estee Lauder, Crawford Family, Stewart Family, Nilson Family, Wade Family, Winthrop University, Winthrop Training School
Manuscript Collection
This collection consists of personal, professional, genealogical and reference files of art-educator, beautician and business woman Ida Crawford Stewart (1922-2023). The collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, citations, photographs, and church bulletins. Also included are family business papers from the time of Ida’s Irish immigrant great-great-grandfather, John Crawford (1750-1826) to the time of her father James Roy Crawford (1891-1980). The papers and correspondence which includes original deeds, wills, and other primary documents that reference the sale of slaves, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction of the South. There are many records that genealogists interested in the Crawford Family, Stewart Family, Nilson …
Notes From Fragments Of The Past: Historical Sketches Of Oley And Vicinity, Alfred L. Shoemaker
Notes From Fragments Of The Past: Historical Sketches Of Oley And Vicinity, Alfred L. Shoemaker
Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents
Handwritten notes copied from the unpublished volume Fragments of the Past: Historical Sketches of Oley and Vicinity by P. G. Bertolet, compiled by Alfred L. Shoemaker, originally dated 1860. Within, a number of stories collected from the Oley Valley detail various subjects including encounters with Native Americans, churches, rock formations, Revolutionary War encampments and husking parties.
Katie Arberry, Ex-Slave Interview
Katie Arberry, Ex-Slave Interview
Slave narratives supplemental materials
Interview of ex-slave Katie Arberry, by Bernice Bowden with the Work Projects Administration, about Arberry's life as a slave.
Cyrus Bellus, Ex-Slave Interview
Cyrus Bellus, Ex-Slave Interview
Slave narratives supplemental materials
Interview of ex-slave Cyrus Bellus, by Samuel S. Taylor with the Work Projects Administration, about Bellus's life as a slave.
W.A. Anderson, Ex-Slave Interview
W.A. Anderson, Ex-Slave Interview
Slave narratives supplemental materials
Interview of ex-slave W.A. Anderson, by Samuel S. Taylor with the Work Projects Administration, about Anderson's life as a slave.
Fannie Alexander, Ex-Slave Interview
Fannie Alexander, Ex-Slave Interview
Slave narratives supplemental materials
Interview of ex-slave Fannie Alexander, by Irene Robertson with the Work Projects Administration, about Alexander's life as a slave.