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Our History Now Podcast
Black History is and has been suppressed in our society either by editing the facts or outright omission to create a false narrative. But that doesn’t mean we have to accept their version of reality. Please visit our website www.ourhistorynow.com.
Our History Now Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Sixteen-Word Trap: How a Constitutional Loophole Rebuilt Slavery in America
History is rarely tidy. If you look closely at the 13 amendment, tucked between the promise of liberty and the signature of the state, you will find a constitutional trap door. With a mere sixteen words, the architects of the amendment did not ...
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The Great Migration: Beyond the "Promised Land"
Between 1910 and 1970, a mass exodus of six million African Americans fundamentally reshaped the American landscape. In 1910, roughly 90 percent of the Black population lived in the South; by 1970, that figure had plummeted to 47 percent. This ...
The Economics of Slavery - Calculated, Recorded, and Exploited
When Americans think about slavery, the picture is often a familiar one: men and women bent over fields of cotton or rice, driven by the lash, forced to labor from sunup to sundown. That picture is accurate—but it is incomplete. It depicts viol...
The Two Gospels: How Slavery Ripped American Faith in Two and Forged the Black Church
In America’s long and troubled history with slavery, few institutions carried more influence than the church. From pulpits across the nation, pastors shaped public opinion—some defending slavery as a God-given order, others denouncing it as sin...
To Preserve Slavery, Nothing Was Sacred. Not Even The Bible
We’re exploring the surprising role of the Bible and Christianity during the era of slavery in America. With slaveholders twisting scripture to justify bondage and control. But at the same time, enslaved Africans reimagined that same faith, fin...