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	<title>The Living Consequences &#187; Slave trade</title>
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	<description>Exploring the Legacy of Slavery and Race in the United States</description>
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		<title>&#8220;The moral relativism of the DeWolf family&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2010/04/the-moral-relativism-of-the-dewolf-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is new. In my work, I frequently encounter push-back to the effect that talking about the history and legacy of slavery and race is counter-productive, because this history is now irrelevant and discussing it only encourages racial divisions and a mentality of victimh0od. A cursory glance at the facts shows this logic to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. family finds traces of slave-trade past in Cuba</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2010/04/u-s-family-finds-traces-of-slave-trade-past-in-cuba/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2010/04/u-s-family-finds-traces-of-slave-trade-past-in-cuba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I returned to the U.S. from Havana last night, the Associated Press released a story on our visit, &#8220;US family finds traces of slave-trade past in Cuba.&#8221; The article has been running prominently in the U.S. and abroad, making the A.P.&#8217;s daily top stories list as their third-listed international story in the world. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;New England’s Scarlet ‘S’ for Slavery&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2010/01/new-england%e2%80%99s-scarlet-%e2%80%98s%e2%80%99-for-slavery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slavery in New England was brutal and lasted, in its official form, for 150 years. Enslavement greatly enriched the colonists and, later, citizens of New England, and only died out gradually and fitfully. This is the proposition of an op-ed appearing in tomorrow&#8217;s Boston Globe, entitled &#8220;New England’s scarlet ‘S’ for slavery,&#8221; in honor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing held on Massachusetts slavery-era disclosure law</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/10/hearing-held-on-massachusetts-slavery-era-disclosure-law/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/10/hearing-held-on-massachusetts-slavery-era-disclosure-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I previewed last month, the Massachusetts state legislature held a hearing yesterday on state representative Byron Rushing&#8217;s proposed slavery-era disclosure law. Update: Governor Deval Patrick has commented that while he hasn&#8217;t read the bill, he agrees that &#8220;we have some unfinished work about some injustices that goes back generations.&#8221; H 3148 would make Massachusetts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing set for Massachusetts slavery-era disclosure law</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/09/hearing-set-for-massachusetts-slavery-era-disclosure-law/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/09/hearing-set-for-massachusetts-slavery-era-disclosure-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I wrote about Massachusetts State Representative Byron Rushing&#8217;s proposed slavery-era disclosure law. At that time, I indicated that Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts &#38; Cultural Development should hold a public hearing later in the year. The committee has now scheduled a public hearing for Monday, October 5 at 1:00pm at which testimony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/03/international-day-of-remembrance-of-the-victims-of-slavery-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/03/international-day-of-remembrance-of-the-victims-of-slavery-and-the-transatlantic-slave-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the United Nation&#8217;s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In commemoration of the event this year, the U.N. has organized a series of programs this week, in New York and around the world. Yesterday&#8217;s program in New York featured screenings of documentaries related to slavery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown University to erect slave trade memorial</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/03/brown-university-to-erect-slave-trade-memorial/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/03/brown-university-to-erect-slave-trade-memorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brown University announced plans yesterday to build a memorial to commemorate Brown&#8217;s historic connections to the slave trade, possibly in Bristol or neighboring Newport, Rhode Island. The announcement was made by the university&#8217;s Commission on Memorials, and is part of Brown&#8217;s effort to implement the recommendations of a 2006 report by the Steering Committee on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/boubacar-joseph-ndiaye/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/boubacar-joseph-ndiaye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a tip of the hat to Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye, the long-time curator of the Maison des Esclaves (House of Slaves) in Senegal, who has passed away in Dakar at the age of 86. Ndiaye, who as a French colonial fought for France in WWII, devoted the last forty years of his life to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A luxury resort dedicated to the slave trade</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/a-luxury-resort-dedicated-to-the-slave-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/a-luxury-resort-dedicated-to-the-slave-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a truly bizarre development, the BBC is reporting that a planned $3.4 billion  &#8220;slavery memorial and luxury resort&#8221; is scheduled to be built in the former slave port of Badagry, on the Gulf of Guinea in what is now Nigeria. Evidently the developers want to tap into the multi-billion dollar business of catering to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts considers slavery-era disclosure law</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/massachusetts-considers-slavery-era-disclosure-law/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/massachusetts-considers-slavery-era-disclosure-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts state representative Byron Rushing has re-introduced his slavery-era disclosure law, &#8220;An Act Relative to the History of Slavery in the Commonwealth.&#8221; Rushing&#8217;s bill would require companies doing business with the state to research and report their connections to slavery (and those of any predecessor companies) prior to 1889. The secretary of state, in turn, [...]]]></description>
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