I’m also looking for suggestions about sources of information on the #midatlanticslavetrade, #USslavery, #TheCivilWar. What has moved you or informed you?

A plaque condemning slave traders is attached to the statue of William Beckford at London’s Guildhall (Pic: City of London Corporation)

“Enormous wrongdoings” of slave traders tackled by City of London project
#Slavery #USslavery
Guildhall statues of two men enriched by slavery have been reinterpreted with input from Caribbean writers to expose the city’s historical ties to the trade
www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news...

All of a sudden? #USslavery
“The ‘owners’ are going to take ‘care’ of them”…..

Samuel Morton wasn’t a lone voice on the fringe of medicine. 'Memoir of the life and scientific labors of Samuel George Morton' by Henry S. Patterson,

"Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn’t"
Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection
#HistSTM #HistSci #Slavery #USslavery
theconversation.com/hundreds-of-...

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