Announcing a conference on “Mass Incarceration and Slavery” at Tougaloo College, October 11-12, 2019. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Modern-Day Slavery at Tougaloo College and by Historians Against Slavery, with generous support from...
Art for Abolitionists: How I Joined the Fight Against Human Trafficking By Callen Buchanan [Ms. Buchanan is a high school student in Vinton, VA who organized a charitable event to raise money to combat human trafficking. Her event received...
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...
The Center for Civil and Human Rights is organizing a conference exclusively for college students on human trafficking solutions. The conference will be held on November 15 and can be attended in person in Atlanta or "virtually" online. This...
Historians Against Slavery would like to share this press release, submitted to us by Hilary Malson, with our supporters. For Immediate Release: June 18, 2014Contact: Hilary Malson202-829-0436 x31228 hmalson at savingplaces dot org Teenagers Fight Human Trafficking at Students...
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...
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...
HAS board members Matthew Mason and Stacey Robertson recently shared the podium at the British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) conference in Cambridge, United Kingdom. They presented research on transatlantic abolitionism with a focus on relevancy for today’s abolitionist,...
See photographs and read tweets from our inaugural conference, "Crossing Boundaries, Making Connections: American Slavery and Antislavery, Now and Then," held September 19-21, 2013, in Cincinnati.
Anna Mae Duane, supporter of HAS and associate professor of English and American Studies at the University of Connecticut, has organized an interdisciplinary colloquium on child labor and slavery to be held October 18, 2013. Please check out the...
Last Friday, HAS co-director Stacey Robertson visited South Elgin High School outside of Chicago to speak to about 200 students on “(Anti)Slavery Now and Then.” Thanks to the teachers and students for the invitation and the great questions! And...