drjohnaeharris.bsky.social
Historian of slavery and abolition. Author of The Last Slave Ships: NYC & The End of The Middle Passage (Yale, 2020). Working on a new book Spying on The Slave Trade 🕵️. Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane
N. Ireland - U.S.
https://www.johnaeharris.com/
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That great Corinne!
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Congrats Randy!
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A cousin of my bathroom floor
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The Greeley-Sanchez link remains unclear for now but there’s an anti slavery connection that’s crying out for discovery. Will work on that.
My takeaway: shoot your shot; knock on that door!
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The Greeley-Sanchez link remains unclear for now but there’s an anti slavery connection that’s crying out for discovery. Will work on that.
My takeaway: shoot your shot; knock on that door!
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Never heard of it
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I shoot my shot in situations like these.
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I’m having a good time
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I have my marching orders!
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What exactly are the Sanchez - Greeley connections? Idk yet.
In the meantime, I’m going to politely snoop all through this house.
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5 minutes later a curious Dr Greeley calls me (yes!) & we talk for 30 minutes. He says, yes it is the Horace Greeley family & they’ve lived there since 1903 - pretty much since Sanchez’s days. Dr G’s son is currently making a Horace G documentary. They are giving me a house tour tomorrow evening! /5
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The receptionist Ramona sadly did not share my enthusiasm for this being the house of the spy but she did pass along a hastily scrawled note I wrote for Dr Greeley along with a copy of my book (yes, pure bait - also the note stretches the truth tbh) /4
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I got inside and pictures of Horace Greeley - as in the famous editor of the anti slavery NY Tribune & 1872 presidential candidate - were all over the lobby. Whaaat? /3
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Sanchez lived in this house in the 1870s and I was delighted to see that the house still stands - all others on the block except the neighbor’s - have been knocked down and rebuilt.
As I got nearer, I noticed it now houses a doctor’s office & the Dr has a curious name: Dr Norman Horace Greeley. /2
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Came perilously close to “nineteeth century” on one of my maps
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Very insightful and just what I needed. Thank you Bridgett.
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That’s a very good point, Robert
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How did the sharing work exactly. Who made decisions about what classes were part of the program? Collaboration is the goal but I fear a power grab by the ed department (it’s currently in our hands).
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Thats more or less what we have now but there’s a push for higher up and Ed department to move it into the Ed department. I think that will mean a reduction in history classes.
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My fear
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Thanks Lindsay. I would prefer that set up.
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Currently they take a lot of social studies classes - history and the like - and a similar number of education classes. I think that would change.
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I appreciate these insights, Mark. They help me see how things might play out and will help us strategize.
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Thanks mark. Would be the same with us (1 faculty member). I fear required history classes would be cut if it moved to ed.
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In what ways?
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I mean, can you say a little more about the preparedness and any other reasons?
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May I ask why?
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My sense is that this is the norm. We would hate to lose what we have worked hard to build and also fear that a reduction in history and other “content” classes would ensue.
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They just came out and said it didn’t they?
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I am doing a flying visit to NYC Monday - Wednesday and will be dropping by Brooklyn to see where my spy lived (140 Clinton - house still stands!). Would you recommend a lunch spot or any other food spot in particular?
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Wait, is that Richard Huzzey the historian?
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Obviously lost on him that this was when the US slowly got its act together to fight a fascist regime…