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Josiah Henson

Before ‘Uncle Tom’ Was a Bestseller, He Was Josiah Henson

Born into slavery, this preacher and Underground Railroad conductor served as the inspiration for a history-making book.
by Jared Brock via Christianity Today on June 10, 2019
Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters.

Race in Black and White

Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.
by Alexis L. Boylan via Boston Review on June 3, 2019

The Birthplace of American Slavery Debated Abolishing it After Nat Turner’s Bloody Revolt

Virginia engaged in “the most public, focused, and sustained discussion of slavery and emancipation that ever occurred."
by Gregory S. Schneider via Retropolis on June 1, 2019

Julius Scott’s Epic About Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution

"The Common Wind" covers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.
by Manisha Sinha via The Nation on May 20, 2019

Pessimism and Primary Sources in the Survey

The pessimism of some historians does an injustice to marginalized people of the past and can produce cynicism in students.
by Jonathan W. Wilson via Teaching United States History on May 20, 2019

Muslims of Early America

Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
by Sam Haselby via Aeon on May 20, 2019

Slavery and the Family Tree

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history?
by Whitney Nell Stewart via Black Perspectives on May 15, 2019

Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy

On Ancestry's dangerous move to make it harder to discern which white families owned slaves.
by Adam H. Domby via Black Perspectives on May 10, 2019

The Consequences of Forgetting

The reparations struggle is about remembering that America was built on slavery, but also about fighting for all working people.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Jacobin on May 7, 2019

The Double-Edged Sword of Motherhood Under American Slavery

How did enslaved mothers contend with the possibility that their children could be sold away from them?
by Emily West via Uncommon Sense on May 7, 2019

First Slavery, Then a Chemical Plant and Cancer Deaths: One Town's Brutal History

Long before Reserve, Louisiana was home to a chemical plant and riddled with cancer, it suffered the deprivations of enslavement.
by Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey via The Guardian on May 6, 2019

A Symbol of Slavery — and Survival

Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains.
by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on April 29, 2019
Portrait photograph of Harriet Jacobs as an older woman

Incidents in the Life of Harriet Jacobs

A virtual tour of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
by Elizabeth Della Zazzera via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 15, 2019

Her Ancestors Fled to Mexico to Escape Slavery 170 Years Ago. She Still Sings in English.

The oldest living member of the Mascogos still sings songs in a language she doesn't understand.
by Kevin Sieff via Washington Post on April 12, 2019

The Prophet Is Human

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.
by Mary F. Corey via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 11, 2019
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James Madison Responds to Sean Wilentz

Madison's Notes of the Constitutional Convention answer a current argument on the Electoral College.
by Alan J. Singer via HNN on April 7, 2019

White Southerners' Wealth After the Civil War

What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tells us about how wealth is really handed down.
by Andrew Van Dam via Washington Post on April 4, 2019

Historians Expose Early Scientists’ Debt to the Slave Trade

Key plant and animal specimens arrived in Europe on slavers’ ships
by Sam Kean via Science on April 3, 2019
Art installation, "Public Soil Memory for the Plantationocene" at the Sandy Spring Museum

How the Soil Remembers Plantation Slavery

What haunts the land? When two artists dig up the tangled history of slavery and soil exhaustion in Maryland, soil memory reveals ongoing racial violence.
by R. L. Martens, BII Robertson via Edge Effects on March 28, 2019

Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.
by Katherine Franke via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2019
Framed portrait of Julia Chinn.

The Erasure and Resurrection of Julia Chinn

Why the nation's ninth vice-president – and his black wife – were purposely forgotten.
by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers via Association of Black Women Historians on March 3, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. criticizes the Vietnam war at a speech at University of Minnesota in 1967.
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Centrism and Moderation? No Thanks.

In times of moral crisis, everyone picks a side — even those proclaiming neutrality.
by April Holm via Made By History on February 27, 2019

The Mistress's Tools

White women and the economy of slavery.
by Lynne Feeley via The Nation on February 26, 2019
Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Tiya Miles.

Talk of Souls in Slavery Studies

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Tiya Miles, Jim Knable via Medium on February 26, 2019
Illlustration: Mrs. Auld teaches fredrick Douglass to read

A Frederick Douglass Reading List

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.
by Jaime Fuller via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 21, 2019
Fugitive slave ad taken out by Thomas Jefferson.

Freedom on the Move

A database of fugitives from American Slavery.
via Freedom on the Move Project on February 20, 2019

The Alamo Is a Rupture

It’s time to reckon with the true history of the mythologized Texas landmark—and the racism and imperialism it represents.
by Raúl A. Ramos via Guernica on February 19, 2019
African American sharecropping children in a field with bags of cotton.
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The Perils of Big Data: How Crunching Numbers Can Lead to Moral Blunders

As history shows, efficiency without ethics can be catastrophic.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal via Made By History on February 18, 2019

Equal-Opportunity Evil

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 14, 2019

The ‘Loyal Slave’ Photo That Explains the Northam Scandal

The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.
by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on February 13, 2019
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