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Month: June 2020

A Local History of Human Trafficking

June 27, 2020January 11, 2021 / David Cecelski / 5 Comments

This essay originated in discussions with Dr. Makini Chisolm-Straker and Katherine Chon on the history of human trafficking in the American South-- and especially in eastern North Carolina.

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Summer of the Red Shirts

June 20, 2020June 24, 2020 / David Cecelski / 13 Comments

In today's post, I want to reflect a little bit on our history and how we got here-- how we came to be such a divided people, why our racial divisions seem to run so deep and why our country remains the land that the great writer James Baldwin once called "these yet-to-be-United States."

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“We Hear that You are Sending your Child to Youngsville School”

June 17, 2020June 18, 2020 / David Cecelski / 1 Comment

What touched me most deeply in Maury York’s remarkable new article on the history of school desegregation in Franklin County, N.C. are the stories of the African American parents who first sought to send their children to previously all-white schools.

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The Beauty of Old Fishing Nets

June 13, 2020October 5, 2020 / David Cecelski / 6 Comments

Far more than I usually do, I am noticing the beauty in even the smallest, most everyday parts of my world.

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Their Eyes, Their Faces

June 13, 2020January 11, 2021 / David Cecelski / 2 Comments

I always wonder what happened to them-- the men, women and children that fled Wilmington after the massacre in 1898. I thought of that again just a few days ago when I stumbled onto one of them in a place that I never would have expected-- a catalog for an art exhibit at the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston.

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Lorraine Hansberry’s Unfinished Play– Wilmington in 1898

June 7, 2020June 9, 2020 / David Cecelski / 1 Comment

The New York Times reported today that the great African American playwright Lorraine Hansberry was working on a play about the massacre of black citizens in Wilmington, N.C., in 1898 when she died, far too young, of pancreatic cancer in 1965. The news took my breath away.  

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This is David Cecelski’s official website. Here you’ll find my books and an assortment of my essays and lectures. You’ll also find a new project that features historical photographs of maritime life on the North Carolina coast between 1870 and 1941. In “Love in the Archives,” you can also follow my expeditions to museums, libraries and archives here and abroad as I search for the lost stories from our coastal past.

If you see something in a photograph or manuscript that I didn’t see, I hope you will let me know. If I got something wrong, I hope you will also let me know. And if you have an old diary, photograph or other historical document that you think might belong here, I’d love to see it

I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I enjoy writing them. I hope they will help you understand better my little corner of the Atlantic seacoast. Maybe they will even help you to grow a little closer to wherever you call home.

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