#AfricanAmericanHistory is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 12 people shared 97 posts with it — around 3 a day. Activity is up 29% versus the previous week, peaking on Oct 27 with 6 posts.

Posts with #AfricanAmericanHistory

Michael

@mdstamper.bsky.social

6 days ago

“Mary Brice at Point of Honor” by Jon Roark (American) – Egg tempera on clapboard / 2018 – Lynchburg Museum (Lynchburg, Virginia) #WomenInArt #JonRoark #LynchburgMuseums #MaryBrice #BlackPortraiture #Roark #BlackWomenInArt #AfricanAmericanHistory #EggTempera #art #artText #2010sArt #PortraitofaWoman

American artist Jon Roark portrays Mary Brice seated before Point of Honor, a historic estate in Lynchburg, Virginia. Wearing a green-and-cream striped dress, a white headwrap tied with a bow, a ruffled collar, and an oval brooch, Brice occupies the foreground of the painting. Her expression is serious and composed, her eyes slightly lowered. One hand rests beside her while the other holds the stems of pink and pale flowers across her lap. A curving stone path leads toward the red-brick house behind her, placing Brice at the center of a landscape once sustained by enslaved labor.

Mary Brice, whose surname was also recorded as Bryce, was an enslaved African American woman who lived and worked at Point of Honor during the 1850s. Little is known of her life, although historians believe she likely performed domestic duties, possibly as a cook, maid, or nurse. Around 1853, Lynchburg photographer Peter E. Gibbs made a daguerreotype portrait of Brice, now preserved in the Library of Congress. It is particularly significant as the only known identified photographic portrait of an enslaved Lynchburg resident taken before Emancipation.

Roark based his painting on that remarkable photograph, preserving Brice’s seated posture, striped clothing, headwrap, and brooch while transforming its dark studio background into the grounds of Point of Honor. A decorated fan visible in the original photograph becomes a small bouquet of flowers. These artistic changes place Brice within the setting of her enslavement while giving her historical likeness renewed color and presence. Roark chose egg tempera, a traditional medium made by mixing pigment with egg yolk, for its luminous surface and rich appearance, qualities he believed his subjects deserved.

By bringing an almost forgotten woman into the foreground, Roark encourages us to recognize her individuality and remember a life largely absent from written historical records.

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The African American Museum at the England Manor

@aam-em.bsky.social

2 days ago

Black Church Leaders Provided Protection While Fighting Slavery www.youtube.com/watch?v=P… #BlackHistory365 #AbsalomJones #OnThisDay #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackChurchHistory #CivilRightsHistory #CommunityLeadership #PreservingOurStory #TheEnglandManor

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Black Church Leaders Provided Protection While Fighting Slavery

Black Church leaders like Absalom Jones and Richard Allan started w…

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Fiordland Visuals

@fiordland-visuals.bsky.social

6 days ago

Coming soon the second book in the Benjamin multigenerational family story. Book two moves forward a century, it covers the life of Nathaniel Benjamin and his family and the start of the American Civil War. found at all quality book stores, Fall 2027 #indieauthor #africanamericanhistory #newbooks

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The African American Museum at the England Manor

@aam-em.bsky.social

3 days ago

📚 On This Day in Black History: November 6, 1746 📚 Today we honor Absalom Jones, an abolitionist, community organizer, and religious pioneer who became the first African American priest in the Episcopal Church. #BlackHistory365 #AbsalomJones #OnThisDay #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackChurchHistory

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The African American Museum at the England Manor

@aam-em.bsky.social

3 days ago

How Redlining Shaped Black America As We Know It | Unpack That www.youtube.com/watch?v=2… #BlackHistory365 #OnThisDay #BuchananVWarley #BlackHistory #HousingHistory #CivilRightsHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #PreservingOurStory #TheEnglandManor

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How Redlining Shaped Black America As We Know It | Unpack That

Almost every quantifiable indicator of white supremacy— all lead ba…

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Wesleyan University Press

@weslpress.bsky.social

5 days ago

Benjamin Barson's Brassroots Democracy received three wonderful reviews recently! This award-winning book fosters a new understanding of the birth of jazz. If you want to get your hands on this book, you can get a copy at weslpress.org. #jazz #africanamericanhistory @benjaminbarson.bsky.social

Two copies of Brassroots Democracy are stacked in a skewed manner on top of colorful fall leaves. One hardback underneath a paperback. The cover of Brassroots Democracy features a semi-abstract illustration in oranges, pinks, and blues with an overlay of black ink. The illustration features two hands, a landscape, and a figure working in a field. The illustrations and colors swirl together over a white background. The top left corner has all-caps text that reads “Benjamin Barson” in black. On top of the illustration are the words “Brassroots Democracy” in white text. Under the illustration, there is all-caps black text that reads “Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons.” At the very bottom of the cover is a quote in blue that reads, “‘From now on, Brassroots Democracy should be our starting point.’ – Robin D. G. Kelley.”

The image features a cream arch atop a bed of orange, red, and yellow watercolor leaves. The background is a muted green. In the cream arch is a quote that reads "[A] remarkably thorough, brilliantly conceived, and beautifully written contribution to contemporary jazz history literature... The work is incredibly thorough and impeccably researched as over a hundred pages of combined notes and bibliography attest. This volume presents a new history of precursors of jazz told from below that is sure to be a critical inclusion in any detailed study of early jazz and its precursors.” The quote is attributed to Brian Wayne Casey, Popular Music.

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Fiordland Visuals

@fiordland-visuals.bsky.social

7 days ago

Story book art for Chasing The Sunrise #indiebookauthor #africanamericanhistory #colonialamerica #enslavedpeople #multigenerationalfamilystory #freedom

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The African American Museum at the England Manor

@aam-em.bsky.social

1 day ago

The Creole Rebellion...Most Successful Slave Revolt in U.S. History? www.youtube.com/watch?v=N… #BlackHistory365 #OnThisDay #CreoleRebellion #MadisonWashington #AfricanAmericanHistory #BahamianHistory #FreedomSeekers #PreservingOurStory #TheEnglandManor

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The Creole Rebellion...Most Successful Slave Revolt in U.S. History?

In this video, I going to answer the question, is the 1841 slave re…

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The African American Museum at the England Manor

@aam-em.bsky.social

1 day ago

The Creole Rebellion of 1841...Most Successful Slave Revolt in U S History #shorts Shared from @drjasonfreeman 🎥✨ Full credit to them. Watch more 📺 www.youtube.com/shorts/_r… #BlackHistory365 #OnThisDay #CreoleRebellion #MadisonWashington #AfricanAmericanHistory #BahamianHistory

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The African American Museum at the England Manor

@aam-em.bsky.social

3 days ago

Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopal priest. Shared from @bishoprobwright 🎥✨ Full credit to them. Watch more 📺 www.facebook.com/reel/250… #BlackHistory365 #AbsalomJones #OnThisDay #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackChurchHistory #CivilRightsHistory #Community

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The Daily Historian

@thedailyhistorian.bsky.social

6 days ago

Menard had won the support of voters in Louisiana, but the congressional challenge prevented him from representing them. Follow the page for more daily history! #JohnWillisMenard #Reconstruction #AfricanAmericanHistory #USHistory #BlackHistory