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What's New at the Gilder Lehrman Center
- David W. Blight reviews David S. Reynolds's book John Brown, Abolitionist for the Washington Post.
- A collection of 15 documents and a brief resource guide to books and online resources. The website was created by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition with the assistance and cooperation of Professor Jean Yellin and the University of North Carolina Press, who will be publishing the Harriet Jacobs Papers.
- An African American woman from Charleston, South Carolina, will soon make an historic homecoming visit to the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Mrs. Thomalind Martin Polite has a unique story to tell. Thomalind is the 7th generation descendant of Priscilla, a 10 year old girl taken on the slave ship Hare from Sierra Leone to South Carolina in 1756. The website includes an essay, historical documents and illustrations, a bibliography, and more information about the Homecoming, which took place in May, 2005.
- This wide-ranging book, published by Yale University Press, the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas, grew out of the 1999 Gilder Lehrman Center Conference "Domestic Passages: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, 1808-1888.
- David W. Blight reviews the PBS documentary "Slavery and the Making of America" for the Chronicle of Higher Education
- A long-awaited biography of Harriet Jacobs, who wrote the 1861 classic, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is the winner of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
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