Tag: African American agency

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Three Perspectives

    Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Three Perspectives

    One of the most important moments in the history of America is the day of January 1, 1863, the day when President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, first issued on September 22, 1862, became effective. This Proclamation freed all slaves in the Southern/ Confederate States that were fighting against the North during the American Civil War (April…

  • 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…