How did a wealthy Newark family secure and exploit Black laborers?
By: Maureen Iplenski
Posted: 7-7-2022… Continue Reading “Neither Free Nor Slave”: The Bondage of Free Blacks in the Lewis Family Household
How did a wealthy Newark family secure and exploit Black laborers?
By: Maureen Iplenski
Posted: 7-7-2022… Continue Reading “Neither Free Nor Slave”: The Bondage of Free Blacks in the Lewis Family Household
Mapping Black existence in White Clay Creek Hundred
By: Britney Henry
Posted on 7-7-2022… Continue Reading “Sights and Sites of Memory”
What were Rathmell Wilson’s connections to slavery and oppression in antebellum Delaware?
By: Collin Willard
Posted: 7-7-2022… Continue Reading Enslavement, Exploitation, and Upholding Unfreedom
How did free Blacks use legislative petitions to protest racial oppression in antebellum Delaware?
By: Krishanna Prince
Posted: 7-7-2022… Continue Reading Free Black Petitioning in Antebellum Delaware
“History Matters: University of Delaware Research Project Examines UD’s History with Slavery,” The Green (Delaware Public Media, May 12, 2023)… Continue Reading Interview on “The Green,” Delaware Public Media
What was life like for African Americans at UD and in Newark in the 1950s-1980s?… Continue Reading Oral History Interviews: African Americans & the University of Delaware Collection
Scholar in the Library “Delaware College and Newark in the Era of Slavery, Indentured Labor, and Abolition” December 7, 2021 Using materials from Special Collections and University Archives, students in the Fall 2021 seminar “Race and Inequality in Delaware” investigated the history of the University of Delaware in the age of enslavement and emancipation. Join…… Continue Reading Scholar in the Library Presentation HIST – 460/660 (Fall 2021)…
How did the political setting of Delaware influence student discourse on the institution of slavery?
By: Margaret W. Hughes
Posted 7-7-2022… Continue Reading Slavery, Race, and Systemic Inequality at Delaware College, 1850-1859
How did Delaware College benefit from the exploitation of Black labor in student family households?
By: Tara Lennon
Posted: 7-7-2022… Continue Reading Students, Delaware College, and the Exploited Labor of Black People
How can land ownership be a form of political resistance?
By Anisha Gupta
Posted: 7-7-2022… Continue Reading The Antebellum Foundations of New London Road’s Free Black Community