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Cotton field.

How The 1619 Project Rehabilitates the ‘King Cotton’ Thesis

The New York Times’ series on slavery relies on bad scholarship to make an argument with an inauspicious history.
by Phillip W. Magness via National Review on August 26, 2019

Slavery's Explosive Growth, in Charts: How '20 and Odd' Became Millions

A twist of fate brought the first Africans to Virginia in 1619. See how slavery grew in the U.S. over two centuries.
via USA Today on August 22, 2019

The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619

Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.
by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on August 20, 2019
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Lines in the Sand

Ed Ayers visits with public historians in Texas and explores what's wrong with remembering the Alamo as the beginning of Texas history.
via Future Of America's Past on August 15, 2019

The Boycott’s Abolitionist Roots

How a group of 19th-century Quakers cut their economic ties to slavery.
by Willy Blackmore via The Nation on August 14, 2019

How We Think About the Term 'Enslaved' Matters

The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.
by Nell Irvin Painter via The Guardian on August 14, 2019

Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down

Michael W. Twitty on the changing tides of plantation interpretation.
by Michael W. Twitty via Afroculinaria on August 9, 2019
Open field by a highway.

The Departed and Dismissed of Richmond

Richmond has a long-forgotten graveyard that is the resting place for hundreds of slaves. Will a new railway be built over it?
by Samantha Willis via Scalawag on August 5, 2019

The Curious History of Anthony Johnson: From Captive African to Right-Wing Talking Point

Certain pundits are misrepresenting the biography of the "first black slaveholder."
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on July 22, 2019

The New Fugitive Slave Laws

In criminalizing the provision of humanitarian assistance to migrants, we have resurrected the unjust laws of antebellum America.
by Manisha Sinha via New York Review of Books on July 17, 2019

The Class Politics of the Civil War

By naming a common enemy the Union Army was able to build and then steer a coalition of Americans toward the systematic destruction of slavery.
by James Oakes via The Nation on July 15, 2019
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How Right-Wing Talking Points Distort the History of Slavery

As we debate reparations, we need to get the facts right.
by Tyler D. Parry via Made By History on June 25, 2019

Why This Mexican Village Celebrates Juneteenth

Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.
by Wes Ferguson via Texas Monthly on June 20, 2019
Lithograph of Black wet nurse nursing a white baby.

George Washington’s Midwives

The economics of childbirth under slavery.
by Sara Collini via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 19, 2019

This Long-Ignored Document by George Washington Lays Bare the Legal Power of Genealogy

In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.
by Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on June 18, 2019
Lehman Durr & Co. building in a turn-of-the-century photograph.

‘The Lehman Trilogy’ and Wall Street’s Debt to Slavery

If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.
by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on June 11, 2019
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

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

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

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
Lithograph of Black wet nurse nursing a white baby.

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
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