Penelope BoyerLouisiana Slave Plantation and Home of The 1811 Revolt Now Owned By Two Black Womenblackenterprise.com - Sharelle BurtThe ancestors are smiling! Co-founders of the Descendants Project, Dr. Joy Banner and her sister Jo Banner, are now the proud owners of the Woodland …
Penelope BoyerPlantation slavery was invented on this tiny African island, according to archaeologistsLive Science - By Kristina KillgroveA 16th-century sugar estate on the tiny African island of São Tomé is the earliest known example of plantation slavery. Plantation slavery may have …
Penelope BoyerOne Woman on This Tiny Island Is Keeping Centuries-Old Culture Alivefodors.com - Rebecca DeurleinDaufuskie Island gives you a glimpse into the past. tepping onto Daufuskie Island is like being transported back in time. Spanish moss drips from live …
Penelope BoyerThe Uneasy Alliance Between Frederick Douglass and White Abolitionistsverified_publisherThe New York Times - By William G. Thomas IIITHE COLOR OF ABOLITION How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation By Linda Hirshman On Aug. 6, 1845, Frederick Douglass set sail on a speaking tour of England and Ireland to promote the cause of antislavery. He had just published “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” an …
Penelope BoyerA New Museum Draws a Line From Slavery to the Modern U.S. Economyverified_publisherBloomberg - By Jordyn HolmanThe Legacy Museum is the latest manifestation of Bryan Stevenson’s decades-long work to get America to confront its past. Museums help cement …
Penelope BoyerThe Unheralded Pioneers of 19th-Century America Were Free African-American FamiliesSmithsonian Magazine - Lorraine BoissoneaultBefore the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, before settlers in wagons organized to travel west along the Oregon Trail in the 1830s, the great American …