Remembering Race in Virginia
On July 30, 2019, exactly four hundred years after the inaugural meeting of the Virginia…
Browsing: Slavery
Beyond Harriet African American Women's Work in the Underground Railroad
This November, Focus Features will release the anticipated movie Harriet in theaters worldwide. In promoting…
Why the Portuguese Restoration of 1640 Matters to the History of American Slavery
Where did American slavery come from? Sweeping questions like that rarely yield clear answers, least…
Not Forgotten: Recovering Florida’s Silenced History of Enslavement from Prison
Since 2018, Antonio Rosa, Pete, and other men incarcerated at Tomoka Correctional Institution (TCI) in…
Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of “State of the Field: Abolition and Emancipation”
When it comes to abolition and emancipation, professional historians and the general public alike have…
The Entitlements of Freedom A Mother’s Pursuit of Mastery in the Antebellum South
A United States provost marshal, a wealthy shoemaker, and one of the largest slave traders…
Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword
Crossposted from The American Historian Online. By the Civil War’s last weary winter, Confederate Richmond,…
Streets and Archives: Slavery and the Spaces of Early New Orleans
In summer 2006, not quite one year after the levees broke, I began my study…
The Trouble in Nate Parker’s Southampton: The Birth of a Nation, a review
“N—s was too smart fo’ white folks to git ketched. White folks was sharp too,…
Learning from the Legal Culture of Gradual Emancipation, or, Misled by the Thirteenth Amendment
For some historians, the recurrent debates about the relationship of our “Framers” to slavery and…