Historians Against Slavery board member Talitha LeFlouria, along with Daina Ramey Berry, wrote a short piece in the Washington Post exposing “Five Myths about Slavery.” Berry and LeFlouria chronicle the origins of Africans in the Americas prior to 1619,...
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/...
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...
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...
This month’s Around the Web update was prepared by HAS supporter Kay Firth-Butterfield. Thanks, Kay! The HAS call for papers, panels or workshops for the 2015 Conference, again at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati is out!...
This month’s Around the Web was written by Paula Hunt, a doctoral candidate in journalism history at the University of Missouri. To find out how you can write an Around the Web post, please visit our call for volunteers....
If you’ve enjoyed our Around the Web blog posts, and would like to become more involved in Historians Against Slavery, this post is for you! HAS is seeking volunteers who are willing to help compile and write our monthly...
Last month, the U.S. State Department released its newest Trafficking in Persons Report, which evaluates countries based on their record in complying with international anti-trafficking conventions. The Guardian released an interactive map to help visualize the report’s major findings,...
Our latest round-up of online articles about slavery, past and present.
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...
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...
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...
The release of 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen’s new film adaptation of the autobiography of Solomon Northup, has prompted a number of excellent reviews and discussions with historians. Check out the New York Times roundtable on the film,...
Our semi-regular survey of the Web features conferences on slavery and prison culture, a new book on the relationship between slavery and academe, a campaign against Harry Potter branded chocolate, and more.
The HAS Blog will regularly feature links to recent items from around the web that connect the struggle against slavery in the past with the present. This week's post features writing by Brenda E. Stevenson and Dael Norwood.