Over 300 scholars and historians, including many friends and supporters of HAS, have signed a petition to European Union political leaders urging them not to conflate the recent Mediterranean refugee crisis with the transatlantic slave trade.
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...
This post by founder and Board Member James Brewer Stewart first appeared at Open Democracy. You can read the original post, along with images, here. Contemporary activists in the United States frequently describe themselves as part of a ‘new...
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...
The history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century abolitionism is replete with lessons about what NOT to do.
This guest post was written by Dr. Scott Heerman, Patrick Henry Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the recipient of the 2014-15 J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship from the American Historical Association for his project, “Deep River:...
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...
Historian Zoe Trodd explores the sometimes troubling parallels between historical and contemporary antislavery imagery.
What do nineteenth-century abolitionist Parker Pillsbury and his twentieth-century biographer have in common? They both crossed the Atlantic on an antislavery mission. In this dispatch, cross-posted from her blog, HAS co-director Stacey Robertson reflects on our new efforts to...
In this guest post, Dr. Gale Kenny of Barnard College, reviews In Pursuit of Freedom, a continuing exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society that will be open until Winter 2018. Have you seen the exhibit? Let us know what...
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...
In a special guest post, historian Tiya Miles explores slavery as "confinement" in the past and the present and asks: What must we do to make our descendants proud of us?
In this guest post, Edward Rugemer, associate professor of African American Studies and History at Yale University, shares some of the methods he has used in the classroom to connect slavery then to slavery now. An earlier version of...
Where do discussions about past and present struggles against slavery and human trafficking have the greatest impact? Many Americans are unaware of modern-day slavery and the abolitionist movement that has emerged to fight it. How, then, do we raise...
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...