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...
Historians Against Slavery is happy to present this digital art exhibition from Jerome and Jeromyah Jones. The work of this father and son artistic collaboration is available until October 31 as a special exhibit at The Gallery at Main...
By Robert E. Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy and Historians Against Slavery Treasurer Today, tens of millions of people worldwide remain enslaved but many scholars choose to ignore their plight and instead wring their hands about...
How the African Slave Trade Helped to Stymie African Financial Development By Dr. Robert E. Wright Economists Ross Levine, Chen Lin, and Wensi Xie have put out an important new paper that unfortunately resides behind the pay wall of...
“Twice Punched in the Gut“ By Dr. Robert E. Wright Whenever I hear anyone earnestly claim that slavery is/was good for the economy, I feel like I have been punched in the stomach, twice. That is because I’m...
The Policy Pundit’s Hippocratic Oath: Do No Harm By Dr. Robert E. Wright At their best, abolitionists and antislavery activists are essentially policy pundits because they want governments to change various policies that impact the costs and benefits associated...
by Whitney Stewart and Ben Wright One, we are the people,Two, a little bit louder,Three, we want justiceFo(u)r farm workers! These words of protest rang out from thousands of farm workers and activists who paraded along the streets on...