# Sources Hub: [[Topics/Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History/Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History|Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History]] ## X posts (times CT) - @SankaraDispatch, Oct 22, 2026, 7:19 PM: https://x.com/SankaraDispatch/status/2113425073176805676 - @xentrik812, Oct 23, 6:56 AM: https://x.com/xentrik812/status/2113600442030596253 - @marshallpittman, Oct 23, 8:41 AM: https://x.com/marshallpittman/status/2113626776760979896 - @RockChartrand, Oct 23, 7:30 PM: https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/2113790139121951165 - @AlBuffalo2nite, Oct 23, 7:56 PM: https://x.com/AlBuffalo2nite/status/2113796841682640915 - @AlBuffalo2nite context: [book post, Oct 22](https://x.com/AlBuffalo2nite/status/2113378511784378515) · [Wiltz post, Oct 23](https://x.com/AlBuffalo2nite/status/2113607275520696485) · [Libya post, Oct 24](https://x.com/AlBuffalo2nite/status/2113965863195812019) ## Numbers - SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic estimates: https://legacy.slavevoyages.org/assessment/estimates - SlaveVoyages blog, disembarkation regions: https://www.slavevoyages.org/blog/-major-regions-where-captives-disembarked/120 - Henry Louis Gates Jr., "How Many Slaves Landed in the U.S.?" (PBS): https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/how-many-slaves-landed-in-the-us/ - NPS, "The Middle Passage": https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-middle-passage.htm - BU African Studies, global diaspora tables (Austen): https://www.bu.edu/africa/files/2023/11/Slave-Trade-Tables.docx.pdf - Mako Nagasawa, "Slavery in Islam" (2010, secondary summary of Austen): http://www.newhumanityinstitute.org/pdfs/article-slavery-in-islam.pdf - J. David Hacker, "A Census-Based Count of the Civil War Dead" (2011): https://wordpress.viu.ca/davies/files/2018/03/A-Census-Based-Count-of-the-Civil-War-Dead.pdf - NYT, "Civil War Toll Up by 20 Percent in New Estimate" (Apr 2012): https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/civil-war-toll-up-by-20-percent-in-new-estimate.html - NPR (May 2012): https://www.npr.org/2012/05/29/153937334/professor-civil-war-death-toll-may-be-really-off ## Africa - PBS *Wonders of the African World*, Ouidah: https://www.pbs.org/wonders/Episodes/Epi3/ouidah.htm - Britannica Kids, Dahomey: https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Dahomey/571180 - Wikipedia, Asante Empire (summary only): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asante_Empire ## Colonial American law - Virtual Jamestown, Virginia slave laws (Hening): https://www.virtualjamestown.org/laws1.html - Encyclopedia Virginia, Court Ruling on Anthony Johnson and His Servant (1655): https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/court-ruling-on-anthony-johnson-and-his-servant-1655/ ## The author - Amazon B0D3KR4RL7, *The Lights Are On In Lovejoy*, Al E. Robinson II: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3KR4RL7 - CBS News on Al and Vivian Gallon-Robinson: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-vivian-gallon-robinson-house-more-than-100-people-spirit-of-truth-urban-ministry-church-buffalo-christmas-blizzard/ - TODAY, Dec 29, 2022: https://www.today.com/parents/family/buffalo-blizzard-couple-fed-strangers-rcna63604 - Jennifer Hudson Show, Jan 11, 2023: https://jenniferhudsonshow.com/2023/01/11/blizzard-heroes-surprise-trip/