Slavery - AAIHS

Translation for the Purposes of Indictment: Baron de Vastey in Colonial Jamaica

In February 1817, a man named Thomas Strafford returned to Kingston from the Kingdom of Hayti. Shortly afterward he would

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

This month I interviewed Sherwin K. Bryant about his work on the Black Pacific and Afro-Andes. Bryant is Associate Professor of

Only a few days after Tax Day, many Americans still have Uncle Sam on their minds. Though the vast majority

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead