No. 3. A slave nation fights for freedom, 1809-1865. Nikita Stewart -- The idea of America / Nikole Hannah-Jones -- Chained migration: how slavery made its way west / Tiya Miles -- Middle Passage / Clint Smith -- Crispus Attucks / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Capitalism / Matthew Desmond -- Mortgaging the future: the North-South rift led to a piecemeal system of bank regulation - with dangerous consequences / Mehrsa Baradaran -- Good as gold: in Lincoln's wartime "greenbacks," a preview of the 20th century rise of fiat currency / Mehrsa Baradaran -- Fabric of modernity: how Southern cotton became the cornerstone of a new global commodities trade / Mehrsan Baradaran -- Municipal bonds: how slavery built Wall Street / Tiya Miles -- Phillis Wheatley / Eve L. Ewing -- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- A broken health care system / Jeneen Interlandi -- Gabriel's Rebellion / Barry Jenkins -- Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves Jesmyn Ward -- Traffic / Kevin M. Kruse -- Undemocratic democracy / Jamelle Bouie -- Medical inequality / Linda Villarosa -- Black Seminoles / Tyehimba Jess -- Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 / Darryl Pinckney -- New Orleans massacre of 1866 / ZZ Packer -- American popular music / Wesley Morris -- Tuskegee syphilis experiment / Yaa Gyasi -- Sgt. Isaac Woodard / Jacqueline Woodson -- Sugar / Khalil Gibran Muhammad -- Pecan pioneer: the enslaved man who cultivated the South's favorite nut / Tiya Miles -- 16th Street Baptist Church bombing / Rita Dove and Camille T. Dungy -- Black Panther Party / Joshua Bennett -- Mass incarceration / Bryan Stevenson-- The wealth gap / Trymaine Lee -- The birth of hip-hop / Lynn Nottage -- Rev. Jesse Jackson's "rainbow coalition" speech / Kiese Laymon -- Superdome after Hurricane Katrina / Clint Smith -- Hope : a photo essay / Djeneba Aduayom -- Shadow of the past Anne C. Bailey -- Why can't we teach this / Nikita Stewart -- No. 1. Slavery, power and the human cost, 1455-1775 -- No. 2. The limits of freedom, 1776-1808 -- No. 3. A slave nation fights for freedom, 1809-1865.
Summary:
The goal of The 1619 Project is to reframe American history by making explicit how slavery is the foundation on which the United States of America is built, and by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as the nation's birth year. By placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story citizens tell of themselves and about who they are as a country, the hope is to paint a fuller picture of the institution that shaped the nation. The project consists of essays on different aspects of contemporary American life, from mass incarceration to rush-hour traffic, that have their roots in slavery and its aftermath. Alongside the essays are 17 original literary works that bring to life key moments in African-American history over the past 400 years, and a special section from the New York Times newspaper on the history of slavery made in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1113868021
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.