Over a decade later, Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the author’s name. The novel, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author’s identity remained unknown. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In her new NEH Public Scholars book, journalist and professor Rachel Lucille Swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement, shedding light on how slavery fueled the growth of the American Catholic Church in the nineteenth century. In 1838, a group of America’s most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church NEH Public Scholar Theresa Runstedtler tells the story of how a generation of Black pro basketball players, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, shaped the NBA. Stream the lecture here.īlack Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA Her lecture “Facing History to Find a Better Future,” drew on her more than 50 years’ experience as a scholar, pioneering academic administrator, and changemaker in higher education. Simmons, professor, author, and president emerita of Prairie View A&M, Brown University, and Smith College, delivered the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Celebrate Black History Month with this selection of NEH-funded projects and resources related to African American history and culture:
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