Historians Against Slavery stands with those protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Eleanor Bumpers, and Alberta Spruill, along with the many other Black and Brown victims of police and vigilante violence in the United...
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,...
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...
The Lepers in Our Heads Chris Momany, Adrian College Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus To the Lepers in your head? Bono/U2 It is a...
“Learning from the Legal Culture of Gradual Emancipation, or, Misled by the Thirteenth Amendment” by Dr. Hendrik Hartog Post originally appeared on Progress: A Blog for American History. Re-posted with permission of the author and editor. For some historians, the...
“Mapping Memories of Enslavement”: The French Confront Their Own History By Dr. Mattie Fitch Like all European countries, France has a long history of participating in slavery, from slave labor in France’s colony of Saint Domingue that ultimately produced...
by Jason Allen, HAS Board Member Recently I had a "war of emails" with my daughter’s 1st grade teacher. My daughter told me that her teacher said George Washington "didn’t own slaves when he was young" and didn’t want...
By David Gellman The film Selma contributes to many important conversations—about racially biased policing, about whether to think of the Civil Rights movement as a bottom up or top down triumph, about liberties movies take with historical records, about...