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,...
By Elizabeth Swanson and James Brewer Stewart, co-editors of Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries (Cambridge University Press, 2018) How should historians respond when pressed to explain how and why it has come...
“Enslaved Children, ‘Rescue Fantasies,’ and the Problem of ‘Innocence’” by Dr. Anna Mae Duane Donald Trump, at some point during his visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, was shown a pair of manacles designed...
The Lost Cause? Teaching the U.S. Civil War in 2016 By Dr. Thomas Balcerski Browse the ever-burgeoning corridors of the internet this time of year, and you will be sure to encounter a popular meme. Two images form...
“Right and Rationalization,” by Rev. Dr. Christopher P. Momany Recent years have witnessed much understandable examination of the slavery-laced legacies at several American colleges and universities. There are many reasons for this attention, and a number of these institutions...
by James Brewer Stewart American historians have, until recently, given fairly straightforward accounts of southern slavery, its abolition and its legacies. Two widely read classroom texts published in the 1960’s set the precedent. For believers in racial progress, John...
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...
What do you think of when you think of our organization’s name: Historians Against Slavery? If you are not an historian, one natural reaction might be to wonder if there is such a thing as historians for slavery. Aren’t...