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.
If you’ve enjoyed our Around the Web blog posts, and would like to become more involved in Historians Against Slavery, this post is for you! HAS is seeking volunteers who are willing to help compile and write our monthly...
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...
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?
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...
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,...
Today’s guest post on The Junto, an outstanding group blog on early American history, was written by HAS supporter Nathan Jérémie-Brink. The post offers an overview of Jérémie-Brink’s experiences at our inaugural conference held last weekend. Here’s a brief...
Historians Against Slavery has many dedicated graduate student volunteers, some of whom will be live-tweeting this weekend's conference.