Historians Against Slavery welcomes the guilty verdicts on all three counts in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. For the family, this is a moment of accountability and vindication, and for the country it...
Hear Historians Against Slavery founder James Brewer Stewart on the Teaching Hard History Podcast from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Jim discusses modern-day slavery happening across the world—and right here in the U.S. – showing educators how to connect the past...
By Robert E. Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy and Historians Against Slavery Treasurer With my history of Financial Exclusion in America hot off the presses, I recently turned my attention to global financial crises only to...
By Robert E. Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy and Historians Against Slavery Treasurer As Anna Mae Duane and many others have shown, enslavers attempt to infantilize the enslaved to render them more amenable to working hard...
James Brewer Stewart is the James Wallace Professor of History, Emeritus at Macalester College. Stewart has written or edited thirteen books addressing the problem of slavery’s abolition and is the founder of Historians Against Slavery. This article originally ran at the History...
Conference call for papers Human Trafficking: Awareness and Action. This conference is a platform for faculty, university undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers from all disciplines to share original research on human trafficking, both awareness and action. Presentations...
By Robert E. Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy and Historians Against Slavery Treasurer I confess that I recently jumped at the opportunity to teach my general education/gender studies course “Global Slavery 10,000 BCE to the Present”...
Yet Another Reason to Visit Vermont By Dr. Robert E. Wright If you are a leaf-lover, a hunter of sea monsters, a maple syrup addict, or love staying in classic B&Bs or taking scenic ferry rides, Vermont is already...
It’s Time for Historians of Slavery to Listen to Economists By Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt Due to the extremely alarming rise of Donald Trump, the American public is once again questioning the political beliefs and actions of lower-class whites....
The End of College and the Community of Ends By Rev. Dr. Christopher P. Momany A long time ago, on a balmy spring evening in 1986, I was...
The Election and Historians Against Slavery. A special message from HAS founder James Brewer Stewart Dear Friends of HAS, “We are re-living Germany in 1936….It feels as if someone l love dearly has suddenly died . . . ....
Lincoln, the 13th Amendment, and the “Cure for All the Evils” By Dr. Christian Samito In his first public address after Congress passed a resolution proposing to the states a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery nationwide, President Abraham Lincoln...
The Dangers of a Fake Tubman Quote By Dr. W. Caleb McDaniel In 2008, at the height of the presidential primary contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the feminist...
“African American History at Risk in Richmond” By James Brewer Stewart, Macalester College Throughout the antebellum decades slaveholders delivered tens of thousands of “their” enslaved people to Lumpkin’s Slave Jail (aka. the Devil’s Half-Acre) located in Richmond, Virginia. Lumpkin’s was...
“Creating & Leading an Anti-Slavery Student Group: Notes from Texans For Freedom President Sarah Brown” By Sarah Brown, Tarleton State University In the fall of 2014, Dr. Michael Landis, Assistant Professor of History at Tarleton State University, taught a...
History Matters: Reflections on the Historians Against Slavery Conference By Dr. Nikki Berg Burin Originally published on the Rural Women’s Studies Blog. Re-posted with their permission. History matters. I say this to the students in my American history survey courses...