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Forget The Alamo – History Surfacing

1/31/2022

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

1/14/2022

The international slave-trade from Africa to the New World was banned by England in 1807, America in 1808, Spain, Sweden …

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“Blood Done Sign My Name” & “Down Along With That Devil’s Bones” – Two Stories of the White South

12/20/2021

Following my reading of Susan Neiman’s, Learning From the Germans, in which she examines America’s and Germany’s differing responses to the …

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Learning from the Germans – Susan Neiman

12/6/2021

Walk the streets of Berlin, or any other German city, and you will not see a statue or any other …

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Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup, and other Slave Narratives

10/23/2021

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, published in 1854, was somewhat of a sensation that year, selling over 30,000 …

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William Lloyd Garrison: Remembering

1/30/2013

At the memorial for William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, the one time slave and friend of Garrison’s, though long estranged …

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The Abolitionists: When so Few Did so Much

1/30/2013

I’ve really learned a lot viewing the three-part PBS series, The Abolitionists.  Having  a lived a life committed to nonviolence …

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El sueño del celta: Mario Vargas Llosa

9/17/2011

Sir Roger Casement is one of the super-heroes of international human rights, and was so before such a  phrase existed.  …

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