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Conversion and Race in Colonial Slavery

To convert was not just a matter of belief, but also a claim to power.

by Katharine Gerbner via Social Science Research Council on June 26, 2018

Trump greeting supporters.

White Tribe Rising

What accounts for white tribalism?

by James McWilliams via The Hedgehog Review on June 21, 2018

Trumpism, Realized

To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on June 20, 2018

Charleston, Key Port For Slaves In America, Apologizes And Meditates On Racism Today

The apology was a long time coming.

by Bill Chappell via NPR on June 20, 2018

Jeff Sessions.

The Fight to Define Romans 13

Jeff Sessions used it to justify his policy of family separation, but he’s not the first to invoke the biblical passage.

by Lincoln Mullen via The Atlantic on June 15, 2018

Mementos of a Forgotten Frontier

The black pioneers who tried to start over out west.

by Anna-Lisa Cox via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 14, 2018

Jefferson’s Monticello Finally Gives Sally Hemings Her Place in Presidential History

New exhibits put slavery at the center of Monticello's story, and make it clear that Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children.

by Philip Kennicott via Washington Post on June 13, 2018

What the Viral Media of the Civil War Era Can Teach Us About Prejudice

A recent photography exhibit at the Getty Center raises difficult questions about our capacity for empathy.

by Allison C. Meier on June 12, 2018

Julia Ann Jackson, age 102, whose narrative was recorded by the WPA, 1937-1938.

Demanding to Be Heard

African American women’s voices from slave narratives to #MeToo.

by Stephanie Richmond via Nursing Clio on June 12, 2018

Ira Berlin, Transformative Historian of Slavery in America, Dies at 77

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”

by Harrison Smith via Washington Post on June 6, 2018

The Enlightenment’s Dark Side

How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it.

by Jamelle Bouie via Slate on June 5, 2018

The Persistence of Whitewashing

How can Americans have such different memories of slavery?

by Jason Silverstein via The New Republic on May 31, 2018

Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology

A review of Deirdre Cooper Owens' "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology."

by Rachel Zellars via Black Perspectives on May 31, 2018

The Court’s Supreme Injustice

How John Marshall, Joseph Story, and Roger Taney strengthened the institution of slavery and embedded in the law a systemic hostility to fundamental freedom and basic justice.

by Allen Mendenhall via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 24, 2018

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

What Happened to the “Free World”?

Pundits can't seem to define what exactly the term refers to. Turns out it was developed for a very particular historical moment.

by Peter Slezkine via The New Republic on May 22, 2018

Lithograph of Josiah Henson in his autobiography.

The Story of Josiah Henson, the Real Inspiration for 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin'

Before Stowe's famous novel, a formerly enslaved African-American living in Canada wrote a memoir detailing his experience.

by Jared Brock via Smithsonian on May 16, 2018

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

Contraband Flesh

A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."

by Autumn Womack via The Paris Review on May 7, 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

Anna Williams

A Slave Who Sued for Her Freedom

An enslaved woman who jumped from a building in 1815 is later revealed to be the plaintiff in a successful lawsuit for her freedom.

by Michael Burton, Kwakiutl Dreher, William G. Thomas III via The Atlantic on May 1, 2018

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

Surveyor and enslaved people working in Barbados.

‘Whiteness’ Was Created to Keep Black People From Voting

When slaves got close to voting rights, slaveowners changed the rules of the game.

by Katharine Gerbner via Made By History on April 27, 2018

Can Art Museums Help Illuminate Early American Connections To Slavery?

New labels at the Worcester Art Museum are drawing attention to the connections between art, slavery, and wealth in early America.

by Sarah E. Bond via Hyperallergic on April 25, 2018

What Thomas Jefferson’s Daughters Can Teach Us About the False Promises of Patriarchy

Women have always come to the aid of men in power, but the costs of such actions have not always been immediately apparent.

by Catherine Kerrison via Medium on April 20, 2018

NYC Will Move—But Not Remove—Statue of Gynecologist Who Experimented on Slaves

Some say the decision to move the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims from Central Park to a Brooklyn cemetery is a "slap in the face."

by Kimberly Lawson via Broadly on April 16, 2018

The Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862

While a far cry from full emancipation, it was an important step towards the abolition of slavery.

by Jessica Parr via We're History on April 16, 2018

Factory Made

A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls.

by Padraic X. Scanlan via The New Inquiry on March 30, 2018

Say Goodbye To Your Happy Plantation Narrative

Only a small percentage of historical interpreters are black, and Cheyney McKnight is trying to change that.

by Zoë Beery via The Outline on March 28, 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

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