In this guest post, Christopher Olsen, professor and chair in the history department at Indiana State University, shares his experiences with bringing contemporary slavery into the history classroom. Please share your own thoughts in the comments! Nearly twenty years...
Our latest round-up of online articles about slavery, past and present.
At the recent annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Atlanta, our Co-Director Randall Miller spoke with History News Network about the mission of HAS.
New to Routledge in 2015: JOURNAL OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING The Journal of Human Trafficking is devoted to the dissemination of scholarship on all issues related to trafficking in persons and allied forms of contemporary slavery. The principal aim of...
Scholars have long acknowledged the centrality of slavery to the formation of modernity in the Americas. However, while the slave trade, plantation complexes, and regimes of labor have been a central focus of the scholarship, enslaved people themselves have...
A belated Happy New Year to all of our supporters and volunteers! While woefully overdue, hopefully this first Around the Web bulletin of 2014 is still brimming with food for thought and inspiration for action. Major sporting events like...
This guest post from Ben Wright, a doctoral candidate in history at Rice University, reports on activities organized this past week by undergraduate members of the Rice Free Project in Houston. Student activists at Rice University are working to...
Historians Against Slavery co-director Stacey Robertson reflects on why Northup's story still resonates today, examining how enslavement continues to occur.
Internship Description National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Print Friendly PDF Summer 2014 Title: Contemporary Slavery Initiatives Intern Supervisor: Brooke Hathaway Department: Strategic Initiatives Description: Contemporary Slavery Initiatives Interns will work with the Strategic Initiatives department to...
In a special guest post, historian Tiya Miles explores slavery as "confinement" in the past and the present and asks: What must we do to make our descendants proud of us?
In this guest post, Edward Rugemer, associate professor of African American Studies and History at Yale University, shares some of the methods he has used in the classroom to connect slavery then to slavery now. An earlier version of...
This post by HAS Board Member Robert E. Wright considers how teachers can use the movie 12 Years a Slave to help students think about modern-day slavery and our responsibilities to inform ourselves about it. Move over Kunta Kinte, Solomon...
Your "Around the Web" reporter has neglected his duties here for the last couple of weeks while visiting the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University. There I had the privilege of...
Where do discussions about past and present struggles against slavery and human trafficking have the greatest impact? Many Americans are unaware of modern-day slavery and the abolitionist movement that has emerged to fight it. How, then, do we raise...
This guest post was written by John Donoghue, Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago and a longtime supporter of Historians Against Slavery. Professor Donoghue is the author of "Fire Under the Ashes:" An Atlantic History of the...
Read an essay by our founding Board Member James Brewer Stewart, which was recently featured on the website U.S. History Scene.