/tags/slavery slavery en-US Copyright Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:01:00 GMT /show/cincinnati-edition/2025-02-10/abolitionist-movement-cincinnati-northern-kentucky We discuss some of the lesser-known stories about the fight for freedom in Northern Kentucky. Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:01:00 GMT /show/cincinnati-edition/2025-02-10/abolitionist-movement-cincinnati-northern-kentucky /education/2022-06-28/uc-drops-mcmicken-name-campus-symbolism-exclusion The University of Cincinnati will change the names of four spaces on campus bearing the name of Charles McMicken, an enslaver and the university's main sponsor in the 1800s. Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:52:51 GMT /education/2022-06-28/uc-drops-mcmicken-name-campus-symbolism-exclusion Tana Weingartner /show/cincinnati-edition/2022-06-20/juneteenth-history-explained From the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 to the Civil War, all the way to 2021 when Juneteenth becomes a national holiday, we explore the chronology. Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:01:00 GMT /show/cincinnati-edition/2022-06-20/juneteenth-history-explained /local-news/2020-01-06/cincinnati-may-consider-changing-name-of-mcmicken-avenue Cincinnati Council may consider a proposal to change the name of a street just south of the University of Cincinnati's campus that carries the name of an… Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:29:09 GMT /local-news/2020-01-06/cincinnati-may-consider-changing-name-of-mcmicken-avenue Tana Weingartner /education/2019-12-17/uc-drops-enslaver-mcmickens-name-from-college The University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees voted unanimously to rename the College of Arts and Sciences Tuesday.The university is dropping enslaver… Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:32:08 GMT /education/2019-12-17/uc-drops-enslaver-mcmickens-name-from-college /education/2019-10-10/founded-on-slavery-how-does-higher-education-make-amends Xavier University and the University of Cincinnati are studying how its institutions were built on slavery. Higher education representatives from across… Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:00:33 GMT /education/2019-10-10/founded-on-slavery-how-does-higher-education-make-amends /history/2019-08-23/from-1619-to-2019-theres-still-a-lot-to-learn-about-slavery-and-its-lasting-impact The year 1619 is getting a lot of mentions lately, in large part because of the massive The 1619 Project undertaken by The New York Times. August marks… Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:01:00 GMT /history/2019-08-23/from-1619-to-2019-theres-still-a-lot-to-learn-about-slavery-and-its-lasting-impact Tana Weingartner /history/2016-01-12/christopher-hager-explores-emancipation-through-the-writings-of-enslaved-and-free-african-americans One of the cruel abuses of slavery in America was that slaves were forbidden to read and write. But as Trinity College Associate Professor of English and… Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:30:00 GMT /history/2016-01-12/christopher-hager-explores-emancipation-through-the-writings-of-enslaved-and-free-african-americans /history/2015-09-22/lincolns-emancipation-proclamation-on-display On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, formally notifying the Confederacy of his intention to… Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:30:05 GMT /history/2015-09-22/lincolns-emancipation-proclamation-on-display /community/2015-09-22/historians-against-slavery-conference-at-freedom-center This week the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is hosting the “Historians Against Slavery” conference, which is designed to facilitate… Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:30:00 GMT /community/2015-09-22/historians-against-slavery-conference-at-freedom-center