Slavery was sustained not only by violence on plantations or decisions in Parliament, but by the routine...
Slavery
The pose is fascinating for all it suggests about Brown’s hopes for the country and the actions...
George and his wife, Caroline, secretly—and dangerously—used their home as a stop on the Underground Railroad. What...
The encounter between African religions and Christianity in the Americas produced spiritual systems that were neither simple...
Victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions. By Dr. Shoshi ParksAnthropologist and Writer No Pacific Islander was safe from...
An artist drew the rebels as they stood trial, leaving behind an invaluable record. By Dr. Kate...
Sugar plantations are a phenomenon tied to European colonization of the Americas. Introduction A sugar plantation dominates...
The evangelical emphasis on biblical authority and personal conversion created a volatile mixture. It could be invoked...
The study of late medieval sex trafficking makes clear that poverty and limited economic opportunities for women...
One legacy of perseverance and productivity, and another of profound injustice. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction...
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...