Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedomさんのイラストまとめ

J. Marion Sims's contribution to the field of gynecology lie in a series of experiments performed on the enslaved women Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, among others, without anesthesia. When artist and activist Michelle Browder saw this painting memorializing Sims's legacy, she was… https://t.co/KVp6mIApEc

This 1863 satirical drawing lampooned the growing consumptive power of African Americans following the Emancipation Proclamation. It depicts a white shoeshine boy reluctantly polishing the shoes of a black dandy on a street corner. The boy explains to his grinning companion that… https://t.co/2Pb3RpZDq5

Did you know a group of formerly enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina were some of the first Americans to observe Memorial Day, or "Decoration Day" as it was called, when they gave slain Union soldiers proper burials in present-day Hampton Park? https://t.co/1PAH2hQ1LZ

It's an honor for my work to be featured in @SmallAxeProject, the premier academic journal devoted to Caribbean Studies. This research is heavily indebted to the scholarship of @jmjafrx, @profsophiewhite, @amelia_rauser, @plbhalbert, and others! https://t.co/7LbgcqnlWD