CLASSROOM RESOURCES FOR INSTRUCTORS - WASHINGTON BLACK BY ESI EDUGYAN
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30 Americans - an exhibition which "showcases works by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades … [and] focuses on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations.”
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The Rise of Slave Plantations and the Road to Abolition - an example of a multigenre essay assignment on a theme related to the book.
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Multigenre Research Project with WASHINGTON BLACK as the focus - an assignment description from Nicole Blair, PhD
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Historians Expose Early Scientists’ Debt to the Slave Trade (Science Magazine)
PLANTATION TOURISM
- Inside America’s Auschwitz: A new museum offers a rebuke — and an antidote — to our sanitized history of slavery (Smithsonian Magazine)
- The awkward questions about slavery from tourists in US South (BBC)
- Should we visit plantations? (This is my South)
PUBLIC HEALTH
- SINCE 1619: LINGERING IMPRINT OF SLAVERY ON AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH podcast (33 min)
- Four Hundred Years Since Jamestown: An AJPH Dossier
- The Myth of Innate Racial Differences Between White and Black People’s Bodies: Lessons From the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1739
- A Contemporary Black Perspective on the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia
- The Burdens of Race and History on Black People’s Health 400 Years After Jamestown
- Toward a Historically Informed Analysis of Racial Health Disparities Since 1619
- “A Widespread Superstition”: The Purported Invulnerability of Workers of Color to Occupational Heat Stress
- Black Maternal and Infant Health: Historical Legacies of Slavery
- All Sorts of People: The Beginning of Vaccination in America - This historical case study is based upon events surrounding the deadly 1721 smallpox epidemic and involves the little-known contribution of an African slave, Onesimus. The case illustrates how progress in science in the United States involved contributions from the wisdom and cultural practices of diverse places and from "all sorts of people."
- The Atlantic Slave Trade - a non-academic blog that compiles several maps of the triangular trade between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas