Category: Conferences English Version
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Professor Matthew Warshauer on Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment
Professor Matthew Warshauer (Central Connecticut State University) tells us how Lincoln was not an abolitionist, and neither was his Republican Party. The Party was only anti-Southern, with only a small fraction actually being anti-slavery. Both Lincoln, a moderate Republican, and his party were against slavery expansion in the western territories. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation…
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Kimberly J. ROBINSON – Slavery as a System of Compulsory Ignorance
Conference: Teaching Race & Slavery in the American Classroom – Gilder Lehrman Center 2022 Annual Conference Concluding roundtable: Why Do We Teach US History? Books recommended: Heather Andrea Williams > Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture); and David Walker’s Appeal *We have…
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Professor Donald YACOVONE about White Supremacy and History Books
In an interview given to The Harvard Gazette in September 2020, Professor Yacovone sees “white supremacy” as invented in the North, instead of the South, by a Canadian established in New York City, and as an existing idea even before the birth of the United States, enabling, at first, white Anglo-Saxons, and then Europeans in…
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