Grisly murderers for anatomical displays related to scientific racism shocker!
This short article is based on this:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4331106?mag=burke-and-hare-and-knox
Which I haven’t read though the article above does make me want to. About 25 years ago I read a bunch of histories of medicine mostly focusing on the 18th to early 19th century so maybe I’m more susceptible than most.
Meanwhile people who killed thousands of aboriginal Australians to satisfy the anatomy schools got off scott free for the most part.
Jenny Draper is a London tour guide who has good videos about London history. This video is a response to the dopey questions she gets from white people about slavery in the UK.
Eta: speling
Would it be possible for me to take this opportunity to say we’re sorry?
It would be interesting to see more accuracy added by tour questioners, plantation wedding crashers, and reenactment visitors…
Lost & then recovered.
Archive link in case they realize they left it accessible:
Vermont was the Republic of Vermont in 1777. It was a country when it abolished slavery. It was admitted to the Union as the 14th State in 1797.
So - good on you Vermont.
Although the show is about genealogy, this episode of Who Do You Think You Are? provides very interesting details about historical events in Ireland. David Tennant’s Irish ancestors and relatives are featured (video set at 18:20), as well as his reaction to learning about the actions of Protestants and Catholics in his family tree:
Genealogy, you say?
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I’ll also note that anarchist and husband of Lucy Parsons, Albert Parsons, also originally was in the confederate Army, before becoming a labor organizer and then political radical, first in Texas, and then in Chicago…
Not magical, but important.
