This reader collects fourteen influential essays by Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003) on the African American experience. Written with passion and eloquence, they are full of ideas originally dismissed by a white, segregated academy that have now become part of the scholarly mainstream. Covering topics including slave resistance, black abolitionists, Reconstruction, and W. E. B. Du Bois, these essays demonstrate the critical connection between political commitment and the advancement of scholarship, while restoring Aptheker's central place as one of the founding scholars in the development of African American studies.
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Edited by Eric Foner and Manning Marable / Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader - 0 views
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Herbert Aptheker was a member of the American Communist Party and worked to write revisionist history that separated America from its founding
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Herbert Aptheker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Herbert Aptheker (July 31, 1915 – March 17, 2003) was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He authored over 50 volumes, mostly in the fields of African American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), a classic in the field, and the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People. He was a prominent figure in U.S. scholarly discourse since the 1930s.
The Face of Slavery & Other African American Photographs -- American Museum of Photography - 1 views
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A collection of photos of African-American slaves from the C19th. -
photographic museum African American Slavery
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - 16 views
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E-Book about the story of the Linda Brent
The Slave Rebellion Website - 7 views
Digital Library on American Slavery - 7 views
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'Underwritten by a "We the People" grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Digital Library on American Slavery is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.'
Brazilians Welcome Obama As Their Own : NPR - 4 views
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"He looks more Brazilian than American."
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Brazil was settled by waves of European immigrants and millions of African slaves brought there in chains. Their descendants make up the second-largest black population in the world after Nigeria.
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there's no hiding the fact that blacks are worse off than whites.
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Prince of Slaves - 7 views
New resource on slavery and muslims in America from NEH http://www.princeamongslaves.org/
AAAH - 16 views
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An animated map which is an excellent source of information on foreign interference in Africa. You can zoom and use the left/right keys to navigate through the graphics. Helps to show how African power structures have changed over time. Very cool!
Does Russia need a memory law? | openDemocracy - 2 views
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Those drafting it had heeded Napoleon’s exhortation to the creators of his constitution to ‘Write it in such a way that it is brief and obscure’.
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assical memory laws defend the memory of all who suffered from crimes committed by the government or with its support. France has laws covering denial of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire or the fact that the slave trade was a crime against humanity. The memory law proposed in Russia is fundamentally different. It intends, above all, to defend its memory of itself. More precisely, it intends to defend its memory of that régime which many consider criminal. After all, accusations of unleashing war and installing régimes of occupation are accusations levelled at Stalin and Stalinism.
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