Historians Against Slavery welcomes the guilty verdicts on all three counts in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. For the family, this is a moment of accountability and vindication, and for the country it...
Watch former Historians Against Slavery co-director Matthew Mason interviews board member Ben Wright about Wright’s book Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (LSU Press, 2020).
Of the 40 million people worldwide living in slavery today, almost 15 million live in the Muslim world, which can be defined as all the Muslim-majority countries in the world and all countries with large Muslim minorities. In some...
This book is more than a history of child trafficking in Nigeria. It offers an analysis of what I have termed the social economy of a child and answers the question: How can a child’s value be understood in...
Historians Against Slavery is happy to sponsor the Slaveries since Emancipation series with Cambridge University Press. In this post, HAS board member Ben Wright interviews Hannah-Rose Murray on her new book in the series, Advocates of Freedom African American...
Historians Against Slavery stands with those protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Eleanor Bumpers, and Alberta Spruill, along with the many other Black and Brown victims of police and vigilante violence in the United...
Christopher P. Momany is a former college professor and chaplain. He currently serves as pastor of First United Methodist Church in Dowagiac, Michigan. For three decades Chris has researched the arguments for and against slavery in America’s past. His...
By Robert E. Wright, Paul Coverdell Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Policy Studies, Georgia College, Fall 2020 The pandemic’s direct toll on the world’s 40 million or so modern slaves will never be known with certainty but will be disproportionately...
Historians Against Slavery board member Talitha LeFlouria, along with Daina Ramey Berry, wrote a short piece in the Washington Post exposing “Five Myths about Slavery.” Berry and LeFlouria chronicle the origins of Africans in the Americas prior to 1619,...
Announcing a conference on “Mass Incarceration and Slavery” at Tougaloo College, October 11-12, 2019. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Modern-Day Slavery at Tougaloo College and by Historians Against Slavery, with generous support from...
Hear Historians Against Slavery founder James Brewer Stewart on the Teaching Hard History Podcast from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Jim discusses modern-day slavery happening across the world—and right here in the U.S. – showing educators how to connect the past...
By Robert E. Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy and Historians Against Slavery Treasurer With my history of Financial Exclusion in America hot off the presses, I recently turned my attention to global financial crises only to...
By Robert E. Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy and Historians Against Slavery Treasurer As Anna Mae Duane and many others have shown, enslavers attempt to infantilize the enslaved to render them more amenable to working hard...
James Brewer Stewart is the James Wallace Professor of History, Emeritus at Macalester College. Stewart has written or edited thirteen books addressing the problem of slavery’s abolition and is the founder of Historians Against Slavery. This article originally ran at the History...
Conference call for papers Human Trafficking: Awareness and Action. This conference is a platform for faculty, university undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers from all disciplines to share original research on human trafficking, both awareness and action. Presentations...
By Robert E. Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy and Historians Against Slavery Treasurer I confess that I recently jumped at the opportunity to teach my general education/gender studies course “Global Slavery 10,000 BCE to the Present”...