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How a Man Helped Close a Loophole in Illinois’ Slavery Law

Sydney Stallworth, Brad Wynn ksdk.com
"Pete" was one of many slaves considered property of the Jarrot family in Cahokia Heights. He sued for his freedom, and the lawsuit closed Illinois' slavery loophole. Pete's lawyer, Lyman Trumbull, went on to shape the 13th Amendment.

The Discovery of Europe

Álvaro Enrigue The New York Review
A new book investigates the lives of the hundreds of thousands of indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the sixteenth century—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

Tidbits – Jan. 4, 2024 – Reader Comments: Trump Right To Run–The 14th Amendment – Readers Debate; a Just Peace in Ukraine – Readers Respond, Author Responds; Claudine Gay Resignation Letter; Emergency Summit for Gaza -Jan 12; More…

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Reader Comments: Trump Right to Run -- The 14th Amendment - Readers Debate; A Just Peace in Ukraine - Readers Respond, Author Responds; Claudine Gay resignation letter; Minn Community & Labor Escalation; Emergency Summit for Gaza -Jan 12-13

Tidbits – Dec. 28, 2023 – Reader Comments: Trump-Haley-MAGA GOP Embrace Slavery-Fascism; Israeli War Crimes; Migrants and Immigration; Reader Response to Police Reform; Maestro Does Disservice; March on Washington for Gaza-Jan 13; More…

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Reader Comments: Trump-Haley-MAGA GOP Embrace Slavery-Fascism; Israeli War Crimes; Migrants and Immigration; Reader Response to Police Reform; Maestro Does Disservice; March on Washington for Gaza-Jan 13; more Announcements; Cartoons;

Funhouse Mirror

Christopher L. Brown London Review of Books
‘Perhaps the greatest shame of the Atlantic slave trade was that it inspired no shame at all. In their own time, Britain’s slave traders were men of distinction: “worthy men, fathers of families and excellent citizens”

Our Supposedly Glorious Past Existed Only for Some

Esau McCaulley New York Times
Where can African Americans find this lost golden age? Do we discover it during the first centuries of the Republic when slavery was the law of the land? Do we fast forward to the Red Summer, Jim Crow laws, “strange fruit” hanging from poplar trees?

Ships Going Out

James Oakes The New York Review
In American Slavers, Sean M. Kelley surveys the relatively unknown history of Americans who traded in slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Sunday Science: Forging Connections

Andrew Curry Science
DNA from enslaved Black workers at a 19th century iron forge links them to living descendants. But the research swirls with ethical questions
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