Forget The Alamo – History Surfacing
History, it is said, is written by the winners. Well, not always. The history of the Alamo, as it has …
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism – Edward E Baptist
The international slave-trade from Africa to the New World was banned by England in 1807, America in 1808, Spain, Sweden …
“Blood Done Sign My Name” & “Down Along With That Devil’s Bones” – Two Stories of the White South
Following my reading of Susan Neiman’s, Learning From the Germans, in which she examines America’s and Germany’s differing responses to the …
Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman
Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other …
Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup, and other Slave Narratives
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, published in 1854, was somewhat of a sensation that year, selling over 30,000 …
William Lloyd Garrison: Remembering
At the memorial for William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, the one time slave and friend of Garrison’s, though long estranged …
The Abolitionists: When so Few Did so Much
I’ve really learned a lot viewing the three-part PBS series, The Abolitionists. Having a lived a life committed to nonviolence …
El sueño del celta: Mario Vargas Llosa
Sir Roger Casement is one of the super-heroes of international human rights, and was so before such a phrase existed. …