“Mapping Memories of Enslavement”: The French Confront Their Own History By Dr. Mattie Fitch Like all European countries, France has a long history of participating in slavery, from slave labor in France’s colony of Saint Domingue that ultimately produced...
Art for Abolitionists: How I Joined the Fight Against Human Trafficking By Callen Buchanan [Ms. Buchanan is a high school student in Vinton, VA who organized a charitable event to raise money to combat human trafficking. Her event received...
Abolitionists are American Democracy’s Unsung Heroes By Dr. Manisha Sinha Most...
HAS-UK Kick-Off! Beginning in the era of the American Revolution, and even with the Quakers before that, the abolition movement was a transatlantic phenomenon. Whether in the era of Anthony Benezet and Granville Sharp or of William Lloyd Garrison...
Lincoln, the 13th Amendment, and the “Cure for All the Evils” By Dr. Christian Samito In his first public address after Congress passed a resolution proposing to the states a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery nationwide, President Abraham Lincoln...
The Dangers of a Fake Tubman Quote By Dr. W. Caleb McDaniel In 2008, at the height of the presidential primary contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the feminist...
The Policy Pundit’s Hippocratic Oath: Do No Harm By Dr. Robert E. Wright At their best, abolitionists and antislavery activists are essentially policy pundits because they want governments to change various policies that impact the costs and benefits associated...
“Right and Rationalization,” by Rev. Dr. Christopher P. Momany Recent years have witnessed much understandable examination of the slavery-laced legacies at several American colleges and universities. There are many reasons for this attention, and a number of these institutions...
“African American History at Risk in Richmond” By James Brewer Stewart, Macalester College Throughout the antebellum decades slaveholders delivered tens of thousands of “their” enslaved people to Lumpkin’s Slave Jail (aka. the Devil’s Half-Acre) located in Richmond, Virginia. Lumpkin’s was...
“Creating & Leading an Anti-Slavery Student Group: Notes from Texans For Freedom President Sarah Brown” By Sarah Brown, Tarleton State University In the fall of 2014, Dr. Michael Landis, Assistant Professor of History at Tarleton State University, taught a...
History Matters: Reflections on the Historians Against Slavery Conference By Dr. Nikki Berg Burin Originally published on the Rural Women’s Studies Blog. Re-posted with their permission. History matters. I say this to the students in my American history survey courses...
“Interdisciplinary Abolitionism and the Contemporary University: An Experiment,” by David C. Williard “I don’t see what Thai sex slavery has to do with African American emancipation,” a valued but blunt colleague said to me as we discussed how to...
I often tell people that I do what I do for the young adults around me and the folks up in the graveyard. There is no contradiction between grass-roots presence with college and university students and hard-nosed scholarship that...
On Saturday, October 10, 2015, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. hosted an important and energizing event in the history of antislavery in the 21st century. Stacy Jewell Lewis, a survivor of 2 years’ worth of being trafficked as...
Guest Post by Calvin Schermerhorn It’s useful to view the ordeals of Solomon Northup in light of modern human trafficking. At first blush, the nineteenth-century odyssey of an African American New Yorker kidnapped and sold into chattel slavery under...
Over 300 scholars and historians, including many friends and supporters of HAS, have signed a petition to European Union political leaders urging them not to conflate the recent Mediterranean refugee crisis with the transatlantic slave trade.