By Elizabeth Swanson and James Brewer Stewart, co-editors of Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries (Cambridge University Press, 2018) How should historians respond when pressed to explain how and why it has come...
Historians Against Slavery is happy to present this digital art exhibition from Jerome and Jeromyah Jones. The work of this father and son artistic collaboration is available until October 31 as a special exhibit at The Gallery at Main...
By Robert E. Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy and Historians Against Slavery Treasurer Today, tens of millions of people worldwide remain enslaved but many scholars choose to ignore their plight and instead wring their hands about...
Historians Against Slavery is delighted to present this roundtable on Richard Blackett’s magisterial new work The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery. Blackett’s work is the latest entry in the Slaveries...
The Lepers in Our Heads Chris Momany, Adrian College Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus To the Lepers in your head? Bono/U2 It is a...
The role of exonerees from death row, like Clarence Brandley, in contemporary anti-death penalty efforts mirrors the role that former and fugitive slaves, like Frederick Douglass, played in efforts to abolish slavery. By Bharat Malkani, Cardiff University It has...