Cross borders and learn about the histories they didn't teach you in school with Maria Esther Hammack on Hour of History. Maria Esther Hammack is doctoral candidate in the department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation under the direction of Professor Daina Ramey Berry, “South of Slavery: Enslaved and Free Black Movement in a Global Frontier, Mexico, The United States, and Beyond, 1803-1868,” traces the journeys of escapees and migrants who crossed the Mexico-US borderlands because they saw Mexico as a safe haven.

Some Highlights:

The beginning of slavery in the United States

19th century history is larger than you thought

How slaves escapes the American South

What happened once they got to Mexico

Mexican battles for independence

Enslaved histories and how to access them

Abolitionists and people who fought for a better world

The future of history

Weekly Suggestions:

Steven - Biografia de un Cimarron (Biography of a Runaway Slave) by Miguel Barnet

                

Maria - Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming intimate histories in the Americas by Daina Berry and Leslie Harris

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

 

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