A letter from a former slave, Jourdan Anderson to the man who owned him, Colonel P.H. Anderson has drawn a lot of attention in 1965 was posted on several sites and even became the top story at Yahoo News. In the letter Jourdan Anderson offers a smart retort to P.H. Anderson’s request that he come […]
ATLANTA-Third grade students in Gwinnett County, Ga., were given math homework with references to slavery and beatings. A spokesman for Gwinnett County, Ga. claims that the questions were made to incorporate social studies into the math curriculum. One math problem was “Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much […]
A sweeping, high-profile, and ambitious musical film, ‘The Underground Railroad’ blends two powerful, redemptive stories into the background of Gospel/blues songs. The first story tells about a slave, Samuel Woodward, who escapes with his family to Canada. On their heels, is an obsessed slave hunter, JD Plimpton, who has never lost a slave. Along the […]
jubilee (Biblical) – 1. in Hebrew Scriptures, a year of rest to be observed by the Israelites every 50th year during which slaves were to be set free. 2. celebrations held by African-American slaves, usually at Christmas and Easter, which included respite from labor, feasting, music and dancing.
