#enslavedpeople — Public Fediverse posts

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: VMFA Restores Ownership of Work by Enslaved Artist David Drake. “The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has reached a historic agreement with the descendants of enslaved artist David Drake (ca. 1800–ca. 1870) regarding his 1840 stoneware storage jug also known as a ‘poem’ vessel. VMFA has restored ownership of Double-handled Jug to Drake’s descendants and will […]

University of Georgia: “Finding Their Names” Project Identifies Stories of 4,500 Enslaved Georgians. “Names and stories of more than 4,500 Georgians who were enslaved can now be discovered by future generations as part of a University of Georgia Libraries project to discover, digitize, and describe pre-Civil War archival materials.”

King’s College London: Register of British Slave Traders reveals English investors and their influence on the nation. “The Register of British Slave-traders launched today, presents biographical data related to each of the known investors in the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved African people from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Drawing on what is now known of these 13,000 […]

BBC: New BBC Series Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga. “A new two-part BBC history commission for BBC Two and iPlayer, Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga, is set to explore the individuals, institutions and organisations who financed Britain’s trade in enslaved Africans from its first tentative steps in the 16th century to abolition of the trade in 1807. Based […]

PBS News Hour: Descendants of enslaved potter David Drake work to reclaim ancestor’s art. “The descendants David Drake, known as Dave the Potter, have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim his work. So far, the family has recovered six pieces of Drake’s highly valued glazed stoneware, and they’re working with museums to bring even more back into […]

University of Pittsburgh: The University Library System is helping to digitize a rare East African archive. “The University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) is working with two Kenyan librarians this summer to digitize centuries-old records documenting slavery and emancipation in East Africa.”

Spectrum News 1: Gov. Beshear posthu­mously pardons 43 who helped enslaved people flee. “Gov. Andy Beshear, D-Ky., on Monday posthumously pardoned 43 people who were imprisoned for helping enslaved people escape to freedom, just days before Juneteenth. Beshear also proclaimed Friday, June 19, 2026, as Juneteenth National Freedom Day in Kentucky.”

City University of New York: New Slavery Databases Document More Than 150,000 Enslaved People in Cuba and Brazil, Opening Paths for Research. “A decades-long project by Distinguished Professor Laird W. Bergad of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies opens a major new archive on slavery and challenges long-held assumptions about its decline.”

UC Irvine: Colonial Mexico’s forgotten history. “Trayectorias Afro is a digital database documenting the movement of enslaved Africans within colonial Mexico. Developed in collaboration with Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, the website launched publicly at UC Merced in March 2026, with an official event in Oaxaca planned for fall 2026. While the project is currently […]

Amistad Research Center: Center Launches Digital Collection on Amistad Case. “This digital collection is comprised of correspondence, dating from 1839-1841, by abolitionists, pro-slavery advocates, government officials, and the Amistad Africans themselves, related to the development of efforts to provide legal assistance to the Africans.”

TIL…

African women who were enslaved and brought to America often smuggled core culinary seeds inside the braids of their hair.

“African women braided their hair and hid rice seeds as well as other grains in cornrows. Also hidden in hair are black eyed beans, small cassava cuttings, maize and other grains depending on how thick the hair was.”

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/how-hair-was-used-to-smuggle-grains-into-the-caribbean-by-african-slaves

#BlackHistoryMonth #Africa #EnslavedPeople #Culinary #TIL #History

American Ancestors: New Database: Kentucky: Kentucky Enslaved Church Records Project. “We are excited to share a new 10 Million Names database today, Kentucky: Kentucky Enslaved Church Records Project. These valuable records were provided by Reckoning, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to examine the legacy of slavery in America and to create ways for communities to engage […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/17/new-database-kentucky-kentucky-enslaved-church-records-project-american-ancestors/

Indianz: Native America Calling: A new archive tells the story of Indigenous slavery. “A team of researchers are actively sifting through archival documents, artifacts even artwork to expand the story of Indigenous slavery. The Native Bound Unbound project includes interactive maps, digitized documents and recent interviews with descendants whose ancestors endured enslavement.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/07/indianz-native-america-calling-a-new-archive-tells-the-story-of-indigenous-slavery/

The Guardian: ‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada will be made into searchable archive. “The stories of enslaved African people and more than 1,000 British plantation owners who were compensated after abolition will be brought together in a searchable archive for the first time.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/04/this-is-strength-stories-of-enslaved-africans-in-grenada-will-be-made-into-searchable-archive-the-guardian/

As the Tatoo Circus in the left wing center KTS in Freiburg is coming, @RDL is starting a podcast to Abolition, a very historical word, rooted in the fight against human enslavement. With todays focus on ending imprisonment, we will talk for 50 minutes about how to strengthen our communities and how exactly to move towards the end of prisons.

Listen here😍

https://rdl.de/node/77427

#prison #abolishprison #tattoocircus #Freiburg #baden #deutschland #germany #jva #gefangnis #badenwurttemberg #burnprisons #ella #thomas
#prisons #prisonersolidarity #podcast #prisonniers #PrisonSolidarity #enslavedpeople #enslaved #kts #human #montag #nacht #nightcalls #gedankenzurnacht #nachtgedanken

University of Massachusetts Amherst: Sowing History, Reaping Justice: Art History Students Publish Children’s Books about Slavery in the Northern US and Canada. “These books were written and illustrated by students in Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson’s UMass Amherst spring art history course, The Visual Culture of Slavery. They have now been digitally published in an open access collection by Black […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/21/sowing-history-reaping-justice-art-history-students-publish-childrens-books-about-slavery-in-the-northern-us-and-canada-university-of-massachusetts-amherst/

University of Cambridge: Family fortunes founded on slavery. “More than 600 letters, photos and papers – pieced together over 20 years from auction sites such as eBay – paint a vivid picture of a British dynasty who profited from enslaving people during the 18th and 19th centuries and indenturing people into the 20th century. The first tranche of the collection is now open to researchers […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/29/university-of-cambridge-family-fortunes-founded-on-slavery/

Associated Press: A volunteer finds the Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents in Massachusetts. “The 5-foot-long scroll is a handwritten declaration signed by 116 New England ministers saying they ‘disapprove and abhor the system of American slavery.’”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/05/associated-press-a-volunteer-finds-the-holy-grail-of-abolitionist-era-baptist-documents-in-massachusetts/

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: New Database Provides Insights Into Black Americans Born Before Emancipation. “Michigan State University’s ‘Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade’ website has recently published new data on more than 2 million Black Americans born before emancipation who were included in the 1900 census.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/25/journal-of-blacks-in-higher-education-new-database-provides-insights-into-black-americans-born-before-emancipation/

Cornell University: Research at risk: Records of enslaved people seeking freedom. “A research project collecting records of freedom-seeking enslaved people in the pre-Civil War U.S. came to a halt when researchers received a stop-work order from the National Endowment for the Humanities in early May. In many cases, they are the only written records of these people.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/research-at-risk-records-of-enslaved-people-seeking-freedom-cornell-university/

Brown University: Collaborative project yields new digital archive on hidden history of Indigenous enslavement. “Long a password-protected database used mostly by researchers and people looking for ancestors, Stolen Relations is set to go public on Saturday, May 10, as part of a symposium at Brown. When it does, anyone in the world will be able to access its 7,000 records, a collection of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/11/brown-university-collaborative-project-yields-new-digital-archive-on-hidden-history-of-indigenous-enslavement/

Harvard Gazette: SlaveVoyages finds new home at Harvard. “SlaveVoyages was the result of nearly four decades of scholarly contributions, with researchers from multiple institutions working painstakingly to digitize handwritten records from archives worldwide. Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/18/harvard-gazette-slavevoyages-finds-new-home-at-harvard/

Internet Archive Blog: Aruba’s Digitized Slavery Documents Added to UNESCO’s International Memory of the World Register. “The Internet Archive is proud to join in celebrating a major milestone in the preservation of global cultural heritage: documents related to the history of slavery in Aruba have been officially added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World (MoW) International Register. The […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/17/internet-archive-blog-arubas-digitized-slavery-documents-added-to-unescos-international-memory-of-the-world-register/

Georgia State University: Data-Mining Project Uncovers Enslaved People’s Histories. “[Professor Elizabeth J.] West, her former graduate research assistant Joshua Jackson (Ph.D. ’22) and former student John Washington (B.A. ’22) were central to creating the Data Mining and Mapping Antebellum Georgia (DMMAG) project. The project aims to build a comprehensive, searchable database of named […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/georgia-state-university-data-mining-project-uncovers-enslaved-peoples-histories/

New York City: Mayor Adams Announces Ambitious Project to Make Accessible Historical Records of Enslaved People in NYC. “New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced an ambitious project to make accessible the historical records of thousands of formerly enslaved New Yorkers who lived in the five boroughs when the practice of slavery was legal here. Led by the New York City Department of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/03/new-york-city-mayor-adams-announces-ambitious-project-to-make-accessible-historical-records-of-enslaved-people-in-nyc/

📰 Na segunda entrega da série #Arquivíadas, no @Publico, Maria José Oliveira conta-nos a história Isabel Nunes: uma mulher escravizada alentejana que, para poder casar e deixar de servir como escrava, teve que pagar uma renda anual à sua "proprietária" até à morte desta.

https://www.publico.pt/2024/07/21/culturaipsilon/noticia/isabel-nunes-escrava-pagou-livre-2098049

#Histodons #HistoryInThePublicSphere #EnslavedPeople #Portugal #Archives #HistoryOnTheMedia #HistóriaNosJornais #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #PessoasEscravizadas #Arquivos #SciComm #SciComPT

Beatings, brandings, suicides: life on plantations owned by Church of England missionary arm | Slavery | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/25/beatings-brandings-suicides-life-on-plantations-owned-by-church-of-england-missionary-arm

#Slavery
#COfE
#AnglicanChurch
#Violence
#Suicide
#Beating
#Branding
#Plantation
#LambethPalace
#Welby
#CodringtonSugarEstate
#EnslavedPeople
#CodringtonPlantations
#SocietyForThePropagationOfTheGospelInForeignParts
#Missionary
#WinchesterUni

Revealed: how #ChurchOfEngland’s ties to #ChattelSlavery went to top of hierarchy

#LambethPalace documents show purchase of #EnslavedPeople in 18th century approved by Anglican #archbishop

• Life on #plantations owned by Church of England #missionary arm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/25/revealed-how-church-of-englands-ties-to-chattel-slavery-went-to-top-of-hierarchy
#Religion #Slavery

St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa | Slavery | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/st-helena-urged-to-return-remains-of-325-formerly-enslaved-people-to-africa

#StHelena
#EnslavedPeople
#Slavery
#Africa
#BritishOverseasTerritory
#StateOfTheAfricanDiaspora
#SOAD
#CottonCapitalProject

Tonight's #BurnsNight when we celebrate Scotland's poet Robert Burns. We're always reminded of his compassion and humanity, but we must always remember that Burns accepted a position as an overseer on plantation in Jamaica. For various reasons, he never made it there, but he thought it okay to make his living from enslaved people.

#RobertBurns #EnslavedPeople #Scotland #history

https://glasgowmuseumsslavery.co.uk/2021/01/25/robert-burns-and-jamaica/

https://archive.org/details/graves-unmarked

In Graves Unmarked: Slavery and Abolition in Stoneham, Massachusetts by Ben Jacques

Topics
#blackchattelslavery, #slavey, #abolition, #antiblackness, #massachusetts, #stoneham, #charlestown, #unitedstatesofamerika, #colonialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishempire, #slavemasters, #slaveowners, #enslavedpeople, #enslavedAfricans, #slavelabor, #slavercolonialism, #invadercolonialism

“In winter the bare trees are black against the snow and sky in the Old Burying Ground on Pleasant Street. Like frosting, snow decorates the gravestones of our town’s early families. The Bryants, the Bucknams, the Gerrys, the Greens, the Goulds, the Hays—our founders.

But beyond the cluster of 18th and 19th century stones, there are bare spots where no markers disturb the gentle slope of the earth. Here those with no status in colonial Stoneham lie in unmarked graves. Here are buried the town’s slaves.”

So begins the untold story of slavery and abolition in a town of farmers and shoemakers just north of Boston. Once part of Charlestown, the village was incorporated in 1725 as Stoneham, Massachusetts.

Responding to Smith’s actions, descendants of people whom Williams family enslaved should sue Williams family for value of their enslaved labor. And use Smith’s same yardstick (inflated from original claim of $51 million to $3.6 billion).
#Reparations
#EnslavedPeople

A school took his family name off a building. He’s demanding $3.6 billion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/13/richmond-university-slavery-name-removal/

@popcornreel
You have a good point that how we phrase things creates meaning. But that absolutely is #semantics
Avoiding use of the word #slave in favour of #enslavedpeople probably is a good idea precisely because it is a good use of semantics and #rhetoric to make an important point
but people who don't think about things that deeply should not then be labelled as bigots for not being #politicallycorrect
#progress depends on rigorous but generous attitudes in how debate is carried out

LANGUAGE: It’s enslaved persons, not “slaves”. We are people who were ENslaved. When you say “enslaved”, you make clear that someone else did this to us. When you say “slave” you speak the language and mindset of the people who did this to us. This is important. It is not semantics. #history #language #enslavedpeople #Black #Mastodon #words