The memorial was defaced with racial slurs and urine. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/heirs-confederacy-unc-memorial.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Tag: Slavery (Historical)
Actually, the Electoral College Was a Pro-Slavery Ploy
That fact alone doesn’t mean it ought to be scrapped. But we should be clear about its disreputable origins. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/electoral-college-slavery.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Knowing Natchez by Its Dead
The city cemetery encapsulates this Mississippi river town’s complicated, counterintuitive history. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/travel/knowing-natchez-mississippi-by-its-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The Electoral College Was Not a Pro-Slavery Ploy
There is a lot wrong with how we choose the president. But the framers did not put it into the Constitution to protect the South. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/opinion/the-electoral-college-slavery-myth.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi.
New research suggests that Redoshi, who became a free woman in 1865, may have been the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/transatlantic-slave-trade-last-survivor.html?partner=rss&emc=rss