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Gold coins and jewelry spilling out of a chest.

The Pirate as Conquistador: Plunder and Politics in the Making of the British Empire

As the British Empire's power expanded, piracy became criminalized.
by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra via Arcade on May 6, 2019

Muslims Arrived in America 400 Years Ago and Today are Vastly Diverse

Islamophobes today ignore the long history and contributions of Muslim Americans.
by Saeed Ahmed Khan via The Conversation on April 11, 2019

My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani via The New Yorker on July 15, 2018

Story of Paris Hill Man Connects Maine to ‘Complexities’ of Slave Trade

Torn from his family in Africa, Pedro Tovookan Parris spent the last years of his short life in rural Maine.
by Kelley Bouchard via Press Herald on July 15, 2018
Kossula Oluale

Lonesome for Our Home

Zora Neale Hurston’s long-lost oral history with one of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on May 23, 2018
Zora Neal Hurston sitting with a man on her 1935 oral history trip to Florida.

Contraband Flesh

A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."
by Autumn Womack via The Paris Review on May 7, 2018
Cudjo Lewis outside his home in Alabama in the 1930s.

The Last Slave

In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston recorded the story of Cudjo Lewis, the last living slave-ship survivor. It languished in a vault... until now.
by Zora Neale Hurston, Nick Tabor via Vulture on April 29, 2018
Map of the arms trade.

The Roots of America’s Gun Culture

How 18th-century British arms sales, the slave trade, and the Revolutionary War contributed to the mess we have today.
by Priya Satia, Isaac Chotiner via Slate on April 19, 2018
Statue memorializing Irish immigrants.

No, the Irish Were Not Slaves Too

The myth of Irish slavery has found fertile ground in Internet memes as a way to derail conversation about the need for affirmative action today.
by Liam Hogan, David M. Perry via Pacific Standard on March 15, 2018
"Slave Ship" painting (1840) by J M W Turner. Courtesy the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Does Locke’s Entanglement With Slavery Undermine His Philosophy?

John Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and liberalism itself, hypocritical?
by Holly Brewer via Aeon on December 12, 2017

American Slavery: Separating Fact From Myth

Before we can face slavery, learn about it and acknowledge its significance to American history, we must dispel the myths surrounding it.
by Henry Nash Smith via The Conversation on June 19, 2017

Why Haiti Should be at the Centre of the Age of Revolution

Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its climax in the Age of Revolution.
by Laurent Dubois via Aeon on November 7, 2016
Painting by Chima Ikegwuonu depicting the Igbo Landing mass suicide, with a slave trader standing over handcuffed Igbo men on a ship, while other Igbo men resolutely entering the water.

Igbo Landing Mass Suicide

In 1803 one of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people took place when Igbo captives from what is now Nigeria were taken to the Georgia coast.
by Samuel Momodu via BlackPast on October 25, 2016

Strummin’ on the Old Banjo

How an African instrument got a racist reinvention.
by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on October 4, 2016

Slavery Myths Debunked

The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than factory workvers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and so on.
by Jamelle Bouie, Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 29, 2015

Why America Needs a Slavery Museum

A wealthy white lawyer has spent 16 years and millions of dollars turning the Whitney Plantation into a memorial to the nation's past.
by Paul Rosenfeld via The Atlantic on August 25, 2015

37 Maps That Explain How America Is a Nation of Immigrants

It's impossible to understand the country without knowing who's been kept out, who's been let in, and how they've been treated once they arrive.
by Dara Lind via Vox on January 12, 2015
Cover of "Empire of Necessity" featuring a painting of violence being wrought on enslaved men.

The Bleached Bones of the Dead

What the modern world owes slavery. (It’s more than back wages).
by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on February 23, 2014

Slave Voyages

This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them.
via Emory Libraries And Information Technology on December 15, 2008
A cream colored map depicting the Middle Passage and trade routes between North America, South America, Africa, and Europe.

What Was Africa to Them?

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on September 27, 2007
Olauda Equiano.

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano, native of Africa, survivor of the Middle Passage and enslavement, tells his story.
by Olaudah Equiano via The Internet Archive on March 24, 1789
Slaves working on a plantation.

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

On freedom, servitude, and writing a novel set in the seventeenth century.
by Princess Joy L. Perry via Literary Hub on August 7, 2025
Storming of Redoubt 10 during the Siege of Yorktown, 1840 painting by Eugène-Louis Lami.

Painting the Revolution: The Artists Who Joined the Fight For American Independence

Art, politics, and revolution intertwined as transatlantic Patriots used wax, paint, and wit to shape the fight for American independence.
by Zara Anishanslin via Literary Hub on July 17, 2025
Rotunda features stone architecture and large paintings hanging on the walls.

The Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship

Attempts to end birthright citizenship thwart an originalist interpretation of the Constitution.
by John Yoo, Robert Delahunty via National Affairs on July 9, 2025
Enslaved people crossing a river at night.

The Power of the Dead: BaKongo Inspiration and the Chesapeake Rebellion

Sensitivity to the influence of BaKongo cosmology on Kongo Christianity can help us better understand the choices made by leaders of the rebellion.
by Ryne Beddard via Commonplace on May 6, 2025
David Einhorn and Morris Raphall and a paper saying "Rabbis Battled for Abolition."

American Pharaohs

A new book doesn’t aim to skewer Jewish defenders of slavery or celebrate Jewish abolitionists, but to understand them, warts and all.
by Allan Arkush via Jewish Review of Books on April 7, 2025
Boston’s Faneuil Hall at night.

When Is History Advocacy?

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.
by Nick DeLuca via Contingent on March 30, 2025
Sheet music for W.C. Handy’s St. Louis Blues, 1925, featuring blue and white images of Louis Armstrong.

Imani Perry’s Blue Notes

Her new book tells the story of Black people through an exploration of the color blue.
by Mychal Denzel Smith via The New Republic on February 5, 2025
Zora Neale Hurston laughing and holding a cigarette.

Go Hard or Go Home

On folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, who passed away sixty-five years ago today.
by Huda Hassan via Mother, Loosen My Tongue on January 28, 2025
Faneuil Hall in Boston at night.

Why Faneuil Hall Is a Metaphor for the American Revolution’s Complicated Definition of Liberty

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras.
by Michael Snyder via Smithsonian Magazine on January 8, 2025
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