Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That’s why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.
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‘Last Seen’: After slavery, family members placed ads looking for loved ones
Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book.
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A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history
Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King’s wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.
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‘I had five different owners in 18 years’: New book features the story of John Jacobs, who fled slavery and denounced American tyranny
After fleeing slavery in 1839, abolitionist, miner and sailor John Swanson Jacobs embarked on a journey that would take him to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and ultimately Australia. It was there that he published his life story in a local newspaper – a unique document that not only gave an account of his experience under enslavement, but also named his enslavers, criticized America’s founding documents, and called out the American citizens who allowed slavery to persist. A new book shares his manuscript in full, accompanied by a biography of Jacobs. It’s called “The True Story of Slavery: The United States Governed by Six Thousand Despots.” Morning host Luis Hernandez spoke with the book’s editor, Jonathan Schroeder, a literary historian at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Confronting Slavery’s Hidden History In RI’s South County
Rhode Island’s outsized role in slavery isn’t such a hidden secret anymore. In recent decades, prominent families have helped unearth the truth about ancestors who were slave traders. Brown University and the Episcopal Diocese, among others, now acknowledge they benefited from slavery. But less attention has been paid so far to the historic plantation economy of South County, R.I. Now a group of historians and volunteers wants to change that.
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Ep. 16: God’s Little Acre
Part II of the Aaron Lopez saga brings us to a burial ground in Newport, where headstones give us insight into the lives of enslaved and free Africans in colonial Rhode Island.
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Artscape – Slavery’s Hinterlands Symposium
Rhode Island’s role in the slave trade, plus an arts festival in New Bedford.
