The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology
In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.
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Slavery
Historical Legacies, Black Canadian Slavery, and Institutional Histories
McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver
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The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy
The Denmark Vesey conspiracy transformed how enslavers viewed free and unfree men who labored in the cities and countryside of
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Black Women’s Reproductive Health and Legacies of Distrust
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn
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Reproductive Rights, Slavery, and ‘Dobbs v. Jackson’
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In 1662, the Virginia legislature cast a
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