Hi all! I'm new here, but wanted to share some things that might interest you:

• The Freedom Schooner AMISTAD: Each year the Amistad tours ports throughout the Atlantic Ocean that have historical  significance to the story of the Atlantic Slave Trade - from the US East Coast to Europe, West Africa and the Caribbean.  They are in urgent need of ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I saw a great film on The History Channel that combined my two of my favorite sub-areas of US History.

Time Machine: USS Constellation: Battling for Freedom "As the United States sought to close a dark chapter in its history, it relied on a small, intrepid fleet and its splendid flagship to bring an end to the evil trade in human ( Read more... )

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Prior to the Civil War, no issue more sharply divided Americans than the issue of race ( Read more... )

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Pirates!!

I'm so glad I had cut and pasted this article. It's from a (now defunct) website on the Whydah, a shipwrecked boat off Cape Cod.

But it really challenges ideas about pirates, etc.

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I came across something that I've talked about a million times, but I finally found the document again. I went to undergrad in hawaii, and in my race and racism in hawaii soc class I did a project on this history of black people in hawaii (it's actually pretty long). There's one professor out there who has worked on it, Kathryn Waddell Takara, ( Read more... )

They came to Newburyport in the 17th century as farmhands, and as servants to the wealthier families that profited from the rise of fishing and shipping from the mouth of the Merrimack River. They became part of the skilled workforce at the shipyards, and the unskilled ranks of the dockworkers and carters ( Read more... )

From the Colonial Era through the Antebellum PeriodI found this particularly interesting ( Read more... )