Oh the horrors of slavery! … the truth ought to be told of it; and what my eyes have seen I think it is my duty to relate …. I have been a slave – I have felt what a…
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Black History Month: Black cadet harassed to death at sea? Or murdered?
June 24 2010. On this date Akhona Geveza, a nineteen-year-old South African cadet on a cargo ship, disappeared. Her body was later found drifting in the sea off the Croatian coast. The question is still was she murdered to shut…
Black History Month: History in Fiction
Black history continues to discover new knowledge and generate new understanding. But today I want to celebrate a different kind of history, that which makes no bones about its invented characters, invented situations, invented scenes, yet which succeeds in telling…
Black History Month: Ayahs at Sea
September 4 1892: She’s Asian, she’s female, she’s just landed in England – and it’s a period when few working-class women of any colour speak up. But Asian nanny Minnie Green took her white employers to a white court. And…
History to Herstory is relaunched
From 7 October 2011 www.historytoherstory.org.uk, an online resource charting Yorkshire women’s lives 1100 to the present day, will be available free to researchers. West Yorkshire Archive Service and the University of Huddersfield are delighted to relaunch the updated History to…
Black History Month: What is Black?
What is Black? Searching for that word within the Cultural Formation tag in the Orlando digital history of women’s writing brings up, of course, a number of writers with unmixed African descent: from Phillis Wheatley and Mary Prince through Zora…
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Mary Morris-Knibb accuses the Child Welfare Association of discrimination, 17 November 1938.
Mr Morgan Jones: So I take it there now exists in this town, the city of Kingston, two bodies [providing child welfare services], one of which is composed of your own people – Jamaicans – and another composed of people…
Looking Forward to October
October at the Women’s History Blog is Black History Month, where we endeavour to provide a range of posts providing the most up to date research in the area of black women’s history. Yet, at the Women’s History Network Conference,…
An Emigration Story
Three women, Catherine Murphy, Anne Walker, and Catherine Callahan were indicted for stealing a hat and convicted and sentenced to 7 years transportation. They were all old offenders, except one an 11 yr old girl, and they were not in…