Board Member Robert E. Wright presented a talk on slavery at Augustana College on February 12, 2015. What follows is his manuscript from the speech. If you would like to learn about having a Historians Against Slavery supporter speak...
This post by founder and Board Member James Brewer Stewart first appeared at Open Democracy. You can read the original post, along with images, here. Contemporary activists in the United States frequently describe themselves as part of a ‘new...
by Whitney Stewart and Ben Wright One, we are the people,Two, a little bit louder,Three, we want justiceFo(u)r farm workers! These words of protest rang out from thousands of farm workers and activists who paraded along the streets on...
Thanks to HAS supporter Paula D. Hunt for her help preparing this Around the Web post! December 2015 will mark the 150th anniversary of the passage of the 13th amendment abolishing slavery. Allen C. Guelzo, professor of history at...
by Jason Allen, HAS Board Member Recently I had a "war of emails" with my daughter’s 1st grade teacher. My daughter told me that her teacher said George Washington "didn’t own slaves when he was young" and didn’t want...
The Gilder Lehrman Center Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellowship Location: New Haven, CT APPLY HERE: http://apply.interfolio.com/28527 Closes: Mar 9, 2015 at midnight Eastern Time The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC),...
By David Gellman The film Selma contributes to many important conversations—about racially biased policing, about whether to think of the Civil Rights movement as a bottom up or top down triumph, about liberties movies take with historical records, about...
The history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century abolitionism is replete with lessons about what NOT to do.
From HAS Supporter, Zoe Trodd Applications are invited for any of three PhD studentships in slavery/antislavery that begin in September 2015. The studentships are part of a collaborative academic project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research fellow to be based in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. The successful applicant will join a collaborative academic project, funded by the...
This guest post was written by Dr. Scott Heerman, Patrick Henry Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the recipient of the 2014-15 J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship from the American Historical Association for his project, “Deep River:...
Protests surrounding the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases have continued to dominate the news headlines since our last update. Historians have weighed in with a number of essays connecting the nation’s slaveholding past to our present condition. Historian...
Historians Against Slavery co-director Stacey Robertson recently wrote a helpful post on antislavery organizing on campus on the End Slavery Now blog. Here’s an excerpt. One of the largest antislavery groups to emerge before the Civil War was one...
By Rachel Hooper At Historians Against Slavery, we are assembling a list of colleges and universities with abolitionist ties in order to better understand the effect abolitionism had on colleges in the nineteenth century. This post reflects on my...
The Center for Civil and Human Rights is organizing a conference exclusively for college students on human trafficking solutions. The conference will be held on November 15 and can be attended in person in Atlanta or "virtually" online. This...
by James Brewer Stewart American historians have, until recently, given fairly straightforward accounts of southern slavery, its abolition and its legacies. Two widely read classroom texts published in the 1960’s set the precedent. For believers in racial progress, John...