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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

A “Malicious Fabrication” by a “Mendacious Scribbler for the ‘New York Times’”

The Times, as a “venomous Abolition Journal” could not be trusted to provide the truth for a white, slave-owning southerner.

by Mandy Cooper, Kate Collins via The Devil's Tale on March 12, 2018

Today’s Eerie Echoes of the Civil War

We may not be in the midst of a war today, but the progress of democracy in this country is still tied to the rights of its most vulnerable citizens.

by Manisha Sinha via New York Review of Books on March 6, 2018

Illustration of enslaved persons singing and dancing

Teaching White Supremacy: U.S. History Textbooks and the Influence of Historians

The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.

by Donald Yacovone via Medium on March 6, 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

Painting of peasants and landlords on Yuri's Day

How American Slavery Echoed Russian Serfdom

Russian serfdom and American slavery ended within two years of each other; the defenders of these systems of bondage surprisingly shared many of the same arguments.

by Matthew Wills, Peter Kolchin, William C. Hine via JSTOR Daily on February 27, 2018

Elizabeth Keckley

Dressmaking Led Elizabeth Keckley From Slavery to the White House

But her memoir caused a rift with Mary Todd Lincoln.

by Nadra Nittle via Racked on February 26, 2018

When Emancipation Finally Came, Slave Markets Took on a Redemptive Purpose

During the Civil War, slave pens held captive Confederate soldiers. After, they became rallying points for a newly empowered community.

by Jonathan W. White via Smithsonian on February 26, 2018

Charles Dickens writing at his table, 1858.

Charles Dickens, America, & The Civil War

What might Charles Dickens have thought about the American Civil War and the American struggle for abolition and social reforms?

by Sarah Kay Bierle via Emerging Civil War on February 23, 2018

Mural of a wedding on a plantation, while African Americans working in fields.

'Until Death or Distance Do You Part'

African American marriages before and after the Civil War.

by Alexis Coe, Tera W. Hunter via Lenny Letter on February 13, 2018

Abraham Lincoln's Secret Visits to Slaves

Former slaves claimed the president came to plantations disguised as a beggar or a peddler, telling them they’d soon be free.

by Bill Black via The Atlantic on February 12, 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

The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti

A rebellion against French colonial rule in 1791 led to a new kind of society.

by Laurent Dubois, Rocky Cotard via The Nib on February 5, 2018

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