Slavery – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:13:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Slavery – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com 32 32 Slavery and Dutch Art: Reckoning with the Colonial Legacy of the Canon https://brewminate.com/slavery-dutch-art-colonial-legacy/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:13:11 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=198245 Dutch and Flemish art cannot be separated from slavery’s legacy. Black scholarship and artists offer ways to challenge

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]]> Peter Burnett: California’s First Governor and the Politics of Racial Exclusion https://brewminate.com/peter-burnett-california-governor-racial-exclusion/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:58:54 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=195726 California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, sought to exclude Black residents despite the state’s ban on slavery. His career

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]]> The Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln’s Decree and the Long Fight for Equality https://brewminate.com/emancipation-proclamation-freedom-equality/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:38:02 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=199421 Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation helped turn the Civil War into a fight against slavery. Its limited reach and enduring

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]]> George H. Thomas: From Enslaver to Defender of Black Civil Rights https://brewminate.com/george-h-thomas-enslaver-civil-rights/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:23:31 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=212478 Born into a Virginia family of enslavers, George H. Thomas fought for the Union. Black soldiers challenged his

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]]> The Medieval Slave Trade: How Europe’s Trafficking Networks Expanded https://brewminate.com/medieval-slave-trade-trafficking-networks/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:17:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=215891 Between the ninth and eleventh centuries, expanding trade routes carried captives across Europe. Political fragmentation and rulers’ complicity

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]]> Slavery in New France from Canada to Louisiana https://brewminate.com/slavery-new-france-canada-louisiana/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:27:20 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=195457 The Canadian Museum of History traces the enslavement of Indigenous people and Africans in New France and shows

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]]> How ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ Became a Great American Novel https://brewminate.com/how-uncle-toms-cabin-became-a-great-american-novel/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:16:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=198287 Uncle Tom’s Cabin captivated readers before the Civil War. Its changing reception reveals how an antislavery bestseller became

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]]> Rebecca Felton: Former Enslaver and First Woman in the U.S. Senate https://brewminate.com/rebecca-felton-first-woman-us-senate/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:43:22 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=246648 Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first woman in the U.S. Senate in 1922, yet her one-day tenure exposed

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]]> How Slaves Ate in Ancient Rome: Food, Labor, and Survival under Roman Servitude https://brewminate.com/how-slaves-ate-in-ancient-rome/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:01:46 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=274078 Roman slaves ate grain, beans, oil, olives, weak wine, and scraps, but every meal was shaped by labor,

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]]> Collard Greens: A 10th-Century Recipe, a Cabbage Thief, and the Road to the American South https://brewminate.com/collard-greens-medieval-foodways-american-south/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:00:28 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=273925 Collard greens have a longer, stranger history than most people realize, connecting medieval foodways, plant migration, and the

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