Kelly L. Schmidt

WashU&Slavery Project Postdoctoral Associate | PhD in Public History & US History from @LoyolaChicago | Historian of race, slavery, abolition | Digital humanist

[Collaborative on Global Children's Issues @GUGlobalChild]

Read "Bound and Severed: Family Ties and Slavery in U.S. Catholicism" by Kelly L. Schmidt, Reparative Public Historian & Kevin Kuehl, Immigrant and Refugee Ministry Coordinator, Washington University in St. Louis @CyberspaceClio, here: https://t.co/gApRsXARMn

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@RichInSweetness Wow. Thank you for sharing.

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BARTON ST - Named for David Barton, who presided over the MO constitutional convention held in the Mansion House hotel. He is credited with having written the constitution which protected slaveholding in Missouri. #StLhistory #slaveryarchive

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MANSION HOUSE CENTER - Mansion House was the hotel where Missouri's first constitution was framed in 1820. It regulated slavery in the state and forbade free people of African descent from entering the state: https://t.co/LBCSDTjlmX #StLhistory #slaveryarchive

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@stl7thward @john3stix Stay tuned! I'll be publishing an interactive map of the street names in the not-too-distant future.

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@mbmuse I know exactly what you mean. Thank you, Mary Beth, and like you I'm glad that the work is contributing to transformative changes.

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I just discovered that my research on people enslaved by the Vincentians, including Aspasia LeCompte and the family of Charles Nesbit, has led DePaul University to rename a building and room on campus after Aspasia LeCompte in a ceremony two days from now. See thread for more:

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More on the stories of Apasia LeCompte and her family, the Nesbits, and others enslaved by the Vincentians can be found at these sources:
https://t.co/jTZSqFKh1b

https://t.co/6zuir8vHt2

https://t.co/k9EFtNO8ky

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https://t.co/vHzDqFWZ1B

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@journo_cam I'm honored to see it making an impact! You may also be interested in "Slavery and the Shaping of Catholic Missouri" which discusses some of the people enslaved by the Vincentians in Missouri.

[Kelly L. Schmidt @CyberspaceClio]

@journo_cam Thank you for your courage in embarking on and sharing this important research! And thanks for the shout out!

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Many of the Vincentians were trained at St. Mary’s of the Barrens, which also was built using the labor of people that they, namely, Bishop Joseph Rosati, enslaved. In 2021, DePaul dropped Rosati’s name off two spaces on campus.

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I first came across photos of minstrelsy in some of DePaul’s archives when researching for a different story for @14eastmag. Blackface in college yearbooks is a disappointing but not surprising phenomenon, but this was different.

[cam rodriguez 🔎 @journo_cam]

THREAD: I spent almost two years researching and reporting on DePaul’s forgotten history of discriminatory admissions practices and campus culture. For a full bibliography of my sources and what guided my reporting, read below.
https://t.co/m1eXvQsGQ0

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Flash flooding on my street

[Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity @CRE2_WashU]

"Wash U taps database to find how the Mississippi River shaped the American slave trade"

Our involvement in the SlaveVoyages (@slavevoyages ) Project was featured in a @stlpublicradio piece!

Check it out here: https://t.co/x0yXIHUSoi

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Remembering you while sitting in the spot where you held a doctoral hooding ceremony for me just over a year ago, just yards away from where this marker now honors you. Miss you so much, Jonathan.

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Jonathan,
I am grateful to have called you a colleague, a mentor, and a friend. Thank you for challenging and inspiring me as well as all those who have had the honor of having you in their lives. Your advocacy has transformed lives. I’ll miss you.

[Kelly L. Schmidt @CyberspaceClio]

Just stumbled upon this memorial display by accident