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3/27/2022 11:00 PM
Tags: Professor Manisha Sinha max parthas yusuf hassan 13th amendment for profit prisons for profit policing convict leasing slavery abolition
You heard a taste of her work and research a few weeks ago during S3-E8 Runaway Slave Syndrome. This week she joins us live! Professor Sinha has written for The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, Time Magazine, CNN, The Boston Globe, Dissent, The Nation, Jacobin, and The Huffington Post and has been interviewed by the national and international press. She has been on National Public Radio, NBC, Democracy Now, BBC News, C-SPAN, Pacifica, Euro News, Canadian Television News, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, China Global News, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are, and was an advisor and on-screen expert for the Emmy nominated PBS documentary, The Abolitionists (2013), which is a part of the NEH funded Created Equal series. She has lectured all over the country and internationally in the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, India, Ireland, and New Zealand. The Chinese rights to The Slave’s Cause have recently been sold to Beijing Han Tang Zhi Dao Book Distribution Co., Ltd. As always, we'll have wonderful music mixes and we'll bring the words of the abolitionist ancestors back to life for a new generation in our bridging the gap segment.
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by The Gist of Freedom in Education
3/19/2022 6:03 PM
Black History University Monthly Recap w/ Dr.Sinha! March 2022
Black Abolitionism During Queen Charlotte's Reign, America's Last Queen Who is also of African Descent.
1. James Somerset (c. 1741 – after 1772) was an African man and the plaintiff in a pivotal court case that was widely reported as outlawing slavery in Britain
2. Judge Mansfield raised his Black niece as his daughter, ruled against slavers in Somerset's Case, and Zong Case.
3. Famous Official paintings by abolitionist Allan Ramsay proudly features Queen Charlotte's African Features in her Coronation Portrait, he also painted a popular image of Judge Mansfield's black and white daughter playing together carefree.
4. Sojourner Truth sues and wins her son's freedom.
5. Bishop Richard Allen founder of Mutual Aid Society and African Methodist Episcopal Church
6. Black Loyalist Harry Wahington successfully eludes capture from Geo. Washington leads a revolution in Africa after serving in the Revolutionary War.
7. Phyllis Wheatley pens a poem a tribute to Christopher Snieder, a child killed leading up to the Revolutionary War, although Crispus Attucks is credited for being the first martyr.
8. Black Revolutionary Era Authors: Lucy Prince and Lemuel Hayes
Queen Charlotte, Queen City Charlotte N.C.,
Harriet Dred, wife Dred Scott
Sojourner Truth Sued For her son's freedom