A rediscovered account of slavery in Bermuda has shed new light on its brutality after the story was “lost in obscurity” 175 years ago. A Narrative of the life of Benjamin Benson was written 16 ye.
“How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids?” journalist-turned-author Jori Lewis asks in the preface to her debut book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History. Lewis’s account of Senegal’s peanut trade in the second half of the 19th century is […]
BRATTLEBORO—The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present “Historical Depictions of Slavery,” a free talk by art historian Renée Ater, on Thursday, April 21, at 7 p.m. via Zoom and Facebook Live. The talk is presented in connection with “Roberto Visani: Form/Reform,” an exhibit of cardboard sculptures that .
The University of Toronto’s Funké Aladejebi hopes readers find Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History to be just as the title promises: unsettling.