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MD Women’s Museum Changes Foundation Name over Namesake’s Pro-slavery Beliefs

The Maryland Museum of Women’s History has announced that it will be changing the name of its foundation after discovering […]

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Olivia Errico

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Delaware Historical Society Partnering with Teachers to Develop Lesson Plans on Slavery

The Delaware Historical Society is looking for teachers to help develop new lessons plans on slavery in the state. The […]

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University of Maryland and Archaeology in Annapolis Collaborate in Research at Wye House

Recent excavations at Wye House, where Frederick Douglass was enslaved, demonstrate how archaeology is both contributing to new scholarly understandings of the African American experience and becoming a more public enterprise.

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Rutgers University-Camden Hosts "Diverse Unfreedoms and Their Ghosts"

This one-day conference brings together research on the diversity of practices, identities, and institutions of unfreedom in the U.S. and beyond.

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Mariam Williams

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New Book Explores Life of Ona Judge, Enslaved Woman Who Escaped George Washington in Philadelphia

A professor of black studies and history at University of Delaware has written the first full-length nonfiction account of the life of Ona Judge.

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Mariam Williams

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Princeton and Slavery Project to Share Findings Through Arts, Academic Collaborations

Findings of the Princeton and Slavery Project will be revealed this fall through academic and arts programming.

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Mariam Williams

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University of Maryland Exhibit Shows Connections Between African Spiritual Practices, Christianity

“Frederick Douglass & Wye House: Archaeology and African American Culture in Maryland” interprets independent culture of enslaved people.

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Mariam Williams

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New Report Reveals Rutgers University's Ties to Slavery, Native American Displacement

“Scarlet and Black, Volume 1: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History” uncovers the role of disenfranchised populations in the institution’s founding.

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Mariam Williams

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Students Opposing Slavery, President Lincoln's Cottage, Receive Presidential Award

Students Opposing Slavery (SOS), a youth education program of the Washington D.C. historic site, President Lincoln’s Cottage, was awarded the Presidential Award of Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons on Monday, October 24th, 2016.

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Mariam Williams

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Closing Weekend of Freedom Around the Corner at Smithsonian

The unique exhibit, which features letters from the Civil War and Civil Rights eras, will close this President’s Day after a year open to the public.

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