Slavery - AAIHS

Slavery, Land Ownership, and Black Women’s Community Networks

October 25, 2018November 3, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Gender, race, slavery

Delia Garlic, a former slave in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana knew the worst of slavery, including violent punishment and forced

Sexuality, History, and Britain’s Colonial Legacy

October 23, 2018November 5, 2018 Sasha Turner colonialism, Jamaica, Marriage, religion, white supremacy

A recent editorial letter in the Jamaica Gleaner condemning the newspaper’s feature of popular dance-hall artist, Beenie Man, his so-called Babymama,

Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, reparations, slave trade, slavery

Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,

A History of Slavery in the United States

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Calvin Schermerhorn slavery

This is an excerpt from Calvin Schermerhorn’s Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2018). This excerpt has been reprinted

Slavery and Memory in Charleston, South Carolina

October 11, 2018October 17, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Resistance, slavery, South

The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not