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The History of the United States’ First Refugee Crisis

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas Jefferson.

by Nicholas Foreman via Smithsonian on January 5, 2016

The Forced Migration of Enslaved People

An interactive set of maps and narratives of the forced migration of approximately 850,000 enslaved people from 1810-1860.

by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 1, 2015

Black family sitting around log cabin, possibly in Florida, 1892.

Plantations Practiced Modern Management

Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.

by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Scott Berinato via Harvard Business Review on September 1, 2013

Illustration of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur writing.

The American Beginning

The dark side of Crèvecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer."

by Alan Taylor via The New Republic on July 19, 2013

Noel Ignatiev.

Africans in America: Interview with Noel Ignatiev

On the of role white supremacist ideas in enforcing slavery in the U.S. in the 19th century.

via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 1, 1998

A painting by J. M. W. Turner depicting a slave ship throwing its dead into the stormy waters.

The Slave Trade and the Jews

Jews have long been feared as the power behind inexplicable evils. Responsibility for the African slave trade has recently been added to this list of crimes.

by David Brion Davis via New York Review of Books on December 22, 1994

John Brown

Three Interviews With Old John Brown

Atlantic writer William Phillips conducted three interviews with Brown before Brown's fateful raid on Harper's Ferry.

by William A. Phillips via The Atlantic on November 30, 1879

A drawing of a church in Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1812.

The Story of Denmark Vesey

Against the backdrop of another conflict over slavery in 1861, Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote an in-depth narrative of Denmark Vesey's planned slave revolt in Charleston, SC.

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson via The Atlantic on June 1, 1861

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