'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled
In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.
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Unknown Black Mardi Gras Facts They'll Never Teach You in School
The city of New Orleans might still be recovering from hosting the Super Bowl, but that’s not stopping the birthplace of jazz music from getting ready to celebrate it’s biggest annual holiday this ...
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Rare portrait of enslaved man goes on display in New Orleans. 'He was walking a fine line'
A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...
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Louisiana death row inmate Christopher Sepulvado dies before execution date
It is named Angola after the former plantation that occupied this territory, which was named for the African country that was the origin of many enslaved Africans brought to Louisiana in slavery ...
A Black educator was hired to reform a school that held a mock slave auction. It was a racist nightmare, she says
Exclusive: Treda Collier Dickenman “is both resilient and extraordinary in her courageousness,” attorney Rebecca Brazzano ...
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A dozen Louisiana victims of police racism get $1,000 each month. The program is funded by a family that got rich off slavery
from the origins of many modern police departments in slave patrols, to the historical overlap between lynch mobs and legal executions. open image in gallery The Louisiana ACLU argues the program ...
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Quin Hillyer: Louisiana schools changing Gulf of Mexico's name a waste of time and money
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary ... Even putting aside the issue of slavery, Trump would have us believe that place names are sacrosanct even when they involve the U.S. Army ...
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Attorneys, advocates make last-minute bid to stop Louisiana’s execution of Jessie Hoffman
It will be the first time Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to execute ... At the rally, she connected capital punishment to the state's legacy of slavery and lynchings. She called on supporters ...
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The Missing Persons of Reconstruction
Slaveholders and their slave trader allies cared little about ... only to have his own enslaver decide to leave South Carolina for Louisiana. He thought he might become richer there than he ...
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National Park Service withdraws Black community in Louisiana from historic landmark consideration
A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar ... legacies of free African American communities that grew out of slavery. The region, in the heart of Louisiana's heavily industrialized Chemical ...
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A Black community in Louisiana was eligible for historic landmark designation. The National Park Service withdrew it from consideration
(AP) — A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar ... legacies of free African American communities that grew out of slavery. The region, in the heart of Louisiana’s heavily industrialized ...
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In this ground, our ancestors were buried.
All over south Louisiana, and indeed across the country, people honor their dead. At historical sites, battlefields, military ...