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 . . . ....
HAS-UK Kick-Off! Beginning in the era of the American Revolution, and even with the Quakers before that, the abolition movement was a transatlantic phenomenon. Whether in the era of Anthony Benezet and Granville Sharp or of William Lloyd Garrison...
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...
“Interdisciplinary Abolitionism and the Contemporary University: An Experiment,” by David C. Williard “I don’t see what Thai sex slavery has to do with African American emancipation,” a valued but blunt colleague said to me as we discussed how to...
On Saturday, October 10, 2015, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. hosted an important and energizing event in the history of antislavery in the 21st century. Stacy Jewell Lewis, a survivor of 2 years’ worth of being trafficked as...