Last week’s events in Charlottesville serve as a chilling reminder of why it is essential for us to tell, and keep telling, the story of slavery in America. Oregon entered the union in 1859, just before the Civil War, under a cloud of deliberate racial exclusion that casts its shadow to the present day. These books from OSU Press confront, each in its own way, the legacy of slavery in Oregon.
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ng Chains: Slavery on Trial in Oregon by R. Gregory Nokes
The Color of Night: Race, Railroaders, and Murder in the Wartime West by Max G. Geier
Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon by Kenneth R. Coleman (available October 2017)
A Force for Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936 by Kimberley Mangun
Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era by Richard W. Etulain
Remembering the Power of Words: The Life of an Oregon Activist, Legislator, and Community Leader by Avel Louise Gordly with Patricia A. Schechter
Outsiders in a Promised Land: Religious Activists in Pacific Northwest History by Dale Soden
Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America edited by Paul Farber and Hamilton Cravens