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...
Slavery, Then & Now: A Reading List By Dr. Elizabeth Swanson & Dr. James Brewer Stewart Plantation Slavery and Abolition, and Their Legacies in the Americas Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...
How the African Slave Trade Helped to Stymie African Financial Development By Dr. Robert E. Wright Economists Ross Levine, Chen Lin, and Wensi Xie have put out an important new paper that unfortunately resides behind the pay wall of...
Yet Another Reason to Visit Vermont By Dr. Robert E. Wright If you are a leaf-lover, a hunter of sea monsters, a maple syrup addict, or love staying in classic B&Bs or taking scenic ferry rides, Vermont is already...
“Thoughts on Teaching: Why Modern Slavery Belongs in a History of Slavery” By Dr. Sara Lampert, University of South Dakota It was drizzling, threatening to rain, but that stopped no one. Students streamed across the quad to the coyote...
Disney, “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and Human Trafficking By Michael Todd Landis On June 29, 2017, the Walt Disney Company announced on its Disney Parks Blog that dramatic changes were coming to the beloved (and inspiration for five blockbuster...
It’s Time for Historians of Slavery to Listen to Economists By Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt Due to the extremely alarming rise of Donald Trump, the American public is once again questioning the political beliefs and actions of lower-class whites....
The End of College and the Community of Ends By Rev. Dr. Christopher P. Momany A long time ago, on a balmy spring evening in 1986, I was...
“Numberless, Diverse Acts of Courage and Belief: The Struggle Against Slavery in History and in the Present” Dr. Aidan McQuade, Director, Anti-Slavery International Delivered on 23 February 2017 in Barnard’s Inn Hall, Gresham College, London. It is two years since, as...
NEWSLETTER: MARCH 2017 “Enslaved Children, ‘Rescue Fantasies, and the Problem with ‘Innocence’,” Dr. Anna Mae Duane http://www.historiansagainstslavery.us/main/2017/03/enslaved-children-duane/ “Twice Punched in the Gut” , Dr. Robert E. Wright http://www.historiansagainstslavery.us/main/2017/02/twice-punched-in-the-gut-wright/ “One Million Abolitionists Project,” Frederick Douglass Family Initiative http://www.fd2018.org/...
“Enslaved Children, ‘Rescue Fantasies,’ and the Problem of ‘Innocence’” by Dr. Anna Mae Duane Donald Trump, at some point during his visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, was shown a pair of manacles designed...