research post 2026-01-23

The kidnappers codebook

Jessica Marie Johnson

Jan 23, 2026

“We’ve survived as well as we have because we keep learning.”

- Lauren Olamina, Parable of the Talents

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Documents

Carter G. Woodson’s Notes to Arturo Schomburg https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/08bd2c40-c31d-0139-ee2f-0242ac110003?canvasIndex=0.

Description: Schomburg's correspondence to Woodson with biographical data pertaining to prominent Black figures (Frederick Douglass, Dred Scott, Crispus Attucks), workers for Black cause and abolitionists (including Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, Granville Sharp); leaders of slave insurrections, history of slavery, abolition movement; Black education; Black history; establishment of Dominican Republic; Black explorers; American Colonization Society; Black soldiers in Civil War; Benjamin Brawley's statement on Encyclopedia of the Negro in answer to Carter G. Woodson; book lists.