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“Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon,” September 16, 2018
On Sunday, September 16 at 2 pm at the Princeton Public Library, author and professor Cheryl Finley discusses her book, “Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon.” From the Princeton University Press web site: “One of the…
Read MoreTouring the Deep South, Where the Confederacy Is Set in Stone
Journalists John Eligon and Trymaine Lee recently toured Southern states to take a measure of attitudes toward preserving the history of the Confederacy and slavery. Among those interviewed were descendants of enslavers, including Jefferson Davis, and enslaved. Opinions expressed include:…
Read MoreSlavery and Emancipation Laws in 19th Century New Jersey, June 19, 2018
Come celebrate Juneteenth, marking the official end of slavery in the United States, at the New Jersey State Library with a lecture on Slavery in 19th Century New Jersey. We’ll be discussing slavery and slavery laws in New Jersey in…
Read MoreThe Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done Download
On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone talks to the Equal Justice Initiative’s Bryan Stevenson about what inspired him to create The Legacy Museum and memorial and to historian Sir Richard Evans about the denazification process in Germany after World War. To listen to…
Read MoreLetter to My Old Master
In 1864, after 32 long years in the service of his master, Jourdon Anderson and his wife, Amanda, escaped a life of slavery when Union Army soldiers freed them from the plantation on which they had been working so tirelessly….
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