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...
Historian Zoe Trodd explores the sometimes troubling parallels between historical and contemporary antislavery imagery.
What do nineteenth-century abolitionist Parker Pillsbury and his twentieth-century biographer have in common? They both crossed the Atlantic on an antislavery mission. In this dispatch, cross-posted from her blog, HAS co-director Stacey Robertson reflects on our new efforts to...
In this guest post, Dr. Gale Kenny of Barnard College, reviews In Pursuit of Freedom, a continuing exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society that will be open until Winter 2018. Have you seen the exhibit? Let us know what...