One legacy of perseverance and productivity, and another of profound injustice. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction...
Slavery
They wanted slavery abolished while simultaneously defending it. By Dr. Timothy Messer-KruseAmerican Historian It’s been five years...
The African island nation played a central—but little-known—role in the rise of the global sugar trade. By...
The GOP is seeking to downplay the role that slavery played in the development of the U.S....
By the time of the American Revolution, slavery had existed in British mainland North America for over...
Propaganda is cheap to produce on the web. By Alex AmendFreelance Writer and Researcher A purposeful lie...
Garrisonians called the Constitution a “covenant with death” and “an agreement with Hell.” Introduction The abolitionist William...
Lawmakers whose Southern ancestors owned slaves before abolition have a higher net worth today. By Neil SehgalPhD...
Everyone supposedly has them, but where exactly do human rights come from? By Dr. Bennett PartenAssistant Professor...
Onesimus never got the credit he was due. By Dr. LaShyra “Lash” NolenMD/MPP Candidate ‘24, Harvard Medical...
The activist power of print across a transatlantic network. In the summer of 1861, the physician, editor,...
Her life reads like an epic. By Dr. Diego Javier LuisAssistant Professor of HistoryTufts University Introduction Jan....
A brief window to fight back. By Dr. Ana Lucia AraujoProfessor of HistoryHoward University Introduction During the...
Haiti became the first free black republic in the world. By Matthew Vree and Alison Satake During...
The president grappled for months over whether signing the Emancipation Proclamation was ‘American’. The American Civil War...
Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and...
Ruinous as were the economic results of slavery, the moral effects were no less destructive. Growth of...
Human bondage was big business in the antebellum United States. Introduction As the United States continues to...
Examining the mostly forgotten rebellions against plantation owners by enslaved people. Introduction From Nat Turner’s insurrection in...
Enslaved Africans were forcibly made to traverse multiple circum-Caribbean points throughout their lives. By Dr. Jennifer WolffPrograms...
Formerly enslaved men and women were constantly acting within networks. Introduction Peggy Winn had every reason to...
Urban renewal incubated a growing commercial sex industry, which in turn fueled a new demand for human...
Black South Carolinians sought justice in this 54-foot-long petition. In the wake of emancipation during the Civil...
The revolution was the largest slave uprising since Spartacus’ unsuccessful revolt against the Roman Republic. Introduction The Haitian...
Abolitionists pointed to example after example of horrific violence against enslaved people. Atlantic slavery was a violent...
Insights into the lives of African Americans at Arlington and other plantations in the Upper South. The...
What we know about slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies is that it was horrific. Introduction As...
Slave trading in Europe from Late Antiquity to the twelfth century. Introduction The image of the early...
His push to allow human chattel in Nebraska lit a match to the Civil War. One of...
Former slave stories from mountain communities like Liberia, South Carolina, are emerging from history. Beneath the brush...