American Uprising, The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt. Daniel ...
We are now in the middle of the sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary commemoration of the American Civil War, the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and the 2012 Tea Party/presidential election campaign, and everything about the American past is politicized. In an earlier article posted on the History News Network, I discussed how presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) was creating her own version of the history of the nation’s founders and of nineteenth century abolitionists to support her belief in the specialness of the United States as a place where the inherent faith of the founders in liberty allowed the nation to eliminate the stain of slavery. In the article, I pointed out that in a sense Bachmann was half right. While Washington and Jefferson supported the enslavement of Africans in the United States, many of the nation’s founders from New York State were opponents of slavery and did work to bring it to an end.
Bachmann’s views about slavery are similar top those championed by Lewis E. Lehrman, a conservative Republican, co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and board member at the New York Historical Society. According to his website, Lehrman has also been a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute, and the Heritage Foundation. In a New York Times interview, Lehrman argued that the institution of slavery was “supported throughout the world, but Americans took the initiative in destroying it.” Lehrman deplored the view expressed by some that “American history consists of one failure after another to deal with the issue of slavery.” According to Lehrman, “one of the triumphs of America was to have dealt directly with that issue in the agonies of a civil war.”
The use and misuse of the anti-slavery crusade, however, is not confined to conservative advocates of the Tea Party movement and supporters of the Republican Party. As the book American Uprising, The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt (New York: HarperCollins, 2011) and some of the commentaries about it show, the history of slavery and resistance to enslavement is used to tell a story, not necessarily accurate, of the glorious, continuous, and ultimately successful struggle of oppressed people against their oppressors. As a secondary school social studies teacher and college-based teacher educator, I have always emphasized African American resistance to enslavement in its multiple forms, but the strength of this history and the African American freedom struggle is undermined when we construct fables to support our views.
Blowing in the wind | louisianaweekly
As we inch toward the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and move into the busiest period of hurricane season, we find ourselves still trying to come to grips with questions whose answers have been blowing in the wind for as long as anyone can remember. Some of the specifics may have changed, but the dynamics that led to the situations in which we find ourselves are hardly new. Because knowing is half the battle, we continue to ask questions in the hope of waking up the sleeping giant that some call “the people” and building “a more perfect union.” So here we go:
• How many local elected officials do you suppose voted for a redistricting plan that doesn’t increase or maintain their political power and enhance their chances of getting re-elected?
• When was the last time a New Orleans policeman fatally shot an unarmed white person?
• Why do residents and community activists have to constantly embarrass local elected officials into doing their jobs?
• How pathetic is it that Elysian Fields Avenue — a major thoroughfare — still hasn’t been repaired nearly six years after Hurricane Katrina and more than a year after New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu was sworn in?
• When did Faubourg Tremé become the new Harlem or Georgetown, with rising real estate prices pushing people of color out of these historically Black neighborhoods?
• How does a NOPD supervisor in a city that recently got slapped with a scathing report detailing corruption, police brutality, racial profiling and ineptitude get away with pressuring subordinates in the Mid City Security District to harass more motorists and pedestrians without reasonable suspicion?
• What do you expect President Barack Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to do about the New Orleans Police Department’s defiant attitudes and practices less than three months after the Department of Justice’s unflattering report on the city’s police force?
• Why is it that New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is downright giddy about all the “tall ships” that will gather in New Orleans to commemorate and kick off next year’s bicentennial of the War of 1812 but still hasn’t said a mumbling word about the 200th anniversary of the 1811 slave revolt, the largest U.S. slave rebellion in history?
• How many more times will the mayor have to be embarrassed by the New Orleans Police Department before he decides to make some real changes?
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Mammon and Manon in early New Orleans, the first slave society in the Deep South, 1718-1819
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The comprehensive resource for information regarding the 1811 Slave Revolt that began in what is present day Norco, Louisiana.
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