by lindaoppenheim | Jun 6, 2018 | Workshop
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 the 19th Century (1800’s). The...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 3, 2018 | Podcast
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...
by lindaoppenheim | May 11, 2018 | Documents, history
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. They grasped the opportunity with vigour,...
by lindaoppenheim | May 8, 2018 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
Sarah E. Bond answers “Yes” to the question about the role of art museums vis a vis the history of slavery in the United States. Describing efforts in a number of museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, Bond “explor[es] exhibit...
by lindaoppenheim | May 3, 2018 | Conference, Events
Join us on Saturday, June 2 from 7:30 am to 9 pm at Rider University North Hall, Lawrenceville Road, Lawrence Township, NJ as we uplift the lives of enslaved and freed people of African descent in English North American and the United States of America (1619-1865) The...
