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How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners

The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.
by Eve Kahn via Atlas Obscura on May 14, 2018

Kanye’s Brand of “Freethinking” Has a Long, Awful History

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 2, 2018

In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via Black Perspectives on March 5, 2018

Dred Scott Strains the Mystic Chords

Dred Scott was an opportunity to settle what the South had previously been unable to achieve either legislatively or judicially.
by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on March 5, 2018

On Prejudice

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of 'racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slaveowning elite.
by Blake Smith via Aeon on March 5, 2018

White Americans Fail to Address Their Family Histories

There is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine. 
by William Horne via The Activist History Review on February 9, 2018
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The Dark Underbelly of Jefferson Davis's Camels

How the U.S. Army's antebellum camel experimentation paved the way for the illicit trafficking of enslaved Africans.
by Michael E. Woods via Muster on November 21, 2017
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It’s Been 155 Years Since the Senate Expelled a Member. Will Roy Moore Break the Streak?

If he does, it will be a sign of just how repugnant his actions are.
by Michael Todd Landis via Made By History on November 15, 2017

The Princeton & Slavery Project

A vast, interactive collection of resources related to Princeton's involvement with the institution of slavery.
via Princeton University on November 6, 2017

Forrest the Butcher

Memphis wants to remove a statue honoring first grand wizard of the KKK.
by Liliana Segura via The Intercept on September 2, 2017

Historians Uncover Slave Quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Archaeologists have uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion.
by Michael Cottman via NBC News on July 3, 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

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on June 4, 2017

Hunting Down Runaway Slaves: The Cruel Ads of Andrew Jackson and the 'Master Class'

A historian collecting runaway slave ads describes them as “the tweets of the master class.”
by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on May 1, 2017

It’s Time for Historians of Slavery to Listen to Economists

Economic analyses of the antebellum era upend the notion that Southern whites were united in their support of slavery.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via Historians Against Slavery on March 17, 2017

When Slaveholders Ran America

Before the Civil War, many Southern leaders hoped to expand slavery even beyond the nation's borders.
by Abrahim Sundiata via Public Books on March 1, 2017

Decoder: The Slave Insurance Market

How much did slave owners pay for antebellum-era policies from Aetna, AIG, and New York Life?
by Michael Ralph, William Rankin via Foreign Policy on January 16, 2017

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?
by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on October 19, 2016

What Gun Control Advocates Can Learn From Abolitionists

Slave ownership was once as entrenched in American life as gun ownership.
by Rebecca Onion, Manisha Sinha via Slate on June 14, 2016

What Happens When Children's Books Fail to Confront the Complexity of Slavery

We need literature that wrestles with the evils of slavery while confronting its complexity – especially when it’s written for children
by Michael W. Twitty via The Guardian on January 19, 2016
Enslaved people being marched from Virginia to Tennessee.

Retracing Slavery's Trail of Tears

America's forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South
by Edward Ball via Smithsonian on November 1, 2015
Confederate soldiers stand among the ruins of houses.

The Slave-State Origins of Modern Gun Rights

The idea of an unfettered right to carry weapons in public originates in the antebellum South, and its culture of violence and honor.
by Saul Cornell, Eric M. Ruben via The Atlantic on September 30, 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.
via The Atlantic on August 25, 2015

What This Cruel War Was Over

The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 22, 2015

The Hidden History Of Juneteenth

The internecine conflict and the institution of slavery could not and did not end neatly at Appomattox or on Galveston Island.
by Gregory P. Downs via Talking Points Memo on June 18, 2015
A painting of U.S. Navy Lt. Stephen Decatur battling Muslim sailors, Tripoli, August 1804.

America’s Forgotten Images of Islam

Popular early U.S. tales depicted Muslims as menacing figures in faraway lands or cardboard moral paragons.
by Peter Manseau via The Wall Street Journal on February 27, 2015

The Weeping Time

A forgotten history of the largest slave auction ever on American soil.
by Kristopher Monroe via The Atlantic on July 10, 2014
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
Side-by-side portraits of Franklin Pierce and Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Dix and Franklin Pierce: The Battle for the Mentally Ill

Dorothea Dix and Franklin Pierce were in many ways ideological soulmates, but he would not help her effort to improve conditions for the mentally ill.
via New England Historical Society on February 8, 2014
Illustration of a proslavery mob raiding a post office in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1835.
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How Much Is Too Much?

The dramatic story of the abolitionist mail crisis of 1835.
via BackStory on December 7, 2012
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