Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
George Washington’s Runaway Slave, Harry
Of our first five presidents, four owned slaves. Thomas Jefferson’s slave-owning legacy has been covered in the news lately; however, the biggest slave owner among the four men was the father of our country, George Washington. Continue reading
How Many Slaves Landed in the U.S.?
Perhaps you, like me, were raised essentially to think of the slave experience primarily in terms of our black ancestors here in the United States. In other words, slavery was primarily about us, right, from Crispus Attucks and Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker and Richard Allen, all the way to Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass. Think of this as an instance of what we might think of as African-American exceptionalism. (In other words, if it’s in “the black Experience,” it’s got to be about black Americans.) Well, think again. Continue reading
J. A. Rogers’ 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. describes the man who inspired his 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro blog series. Continue reading
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