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Singing For Freedom: How Those Fleeing Slavery Found New Lives in the North

Singing For Freedom: How Those Fleeing Slavery Found New Lives in the North

Tom Zoellner on the Role of Music and Faith in the Experiences of the Formerly Enslaved

By Tom Zoellner | October 17, 2025

Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery

Inside the Political Economy of New World Slavery

David McNally Offers a Marxist Perspective on the Economics of Human Exploitation

By David McNally | September 22, 2025

Riding to Freedom: On the Importance of the Horse in Escaping Slavery

Riding to Freedom: On the Importance of the Horse in Escaping Slavery

“Horses were a part of the daily fabric of life for many enslaved Black people.”

By Bitter Kalli | August 19, 2025

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

Princess Joy L. Perry on Freedom, Servitude, and Writing a Novel Set in the Seventeenth Century

By Princess Joy L. Perry | August 7, 2025

White Sugar, Black Bodies: How Slavery Fueled an 18th-Century British Obsession

White Sugar, Black Bodies: How Slavery Fueled an 18th-Century British Obsession

Mathelinda Nabugodi Explores the Violent Shared History of a Popular Consumer Product and Colonial Power in the Caribbean

By Mathelinda Nabugodi | July 29, 2025

Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s <em

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Emily Hauser Explores Ancient Greek Visions of Gender

By Emily Hauser | June 13, 2025

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Abolitionists and Confederates: On the Complex History of American Jews During the Civil War

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Richard Kreitner Explores the Position of a Once-Enslaved People in a Society Marked by Slavery

By Richard Kreitner | April 11, 2025

How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery

How a Group of 19th-Century Historians Helped Relativize the Violent Legacy of Slavery

Scott Spillman on the Scholarship and Intellectual Legacies of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Dunning and Other Academics

By Scott Spillman | March 10, 2025

The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

James H. Sweet on the Mysteries of the “Black Prince” and the Complex History of Anticolonial Mutinies

By James H. Sweet | January 17, 2025

A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

Lee Hawkins: “Slowly, it began to register that being Black rarely meant freedom.”

By Lee Hawkins | January 16, 2025

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Because Facts Still Matter

By Literary Hub | December 24, 2024

The Systemic Sexual Violence Hidden in Plain Sight During America’s Slave Trade

The Systemic Sexual Violence Hidden in Plain Sight During America’s Slave Trade

Kali Gross on Slave Owners' Sadism, the Moral Connotations of Skin Colors to Europeans, and Legalized Assault

By Kali Gross | October 4, 2024

How the Work of Thomas Dixon Shaped White America’s Racist Fantasies

How the Work of Thomas Dixon Shaped White America’s Racist Fantasies

Joel Edward Goza on the Literary and Cinematic Legacy of White Supremacy in the United States

By Joel Edward Goza | September 23, 2024

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