“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.
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)...