law – AAIHS

The World of Slavery, Kidnapping, and the Slave Trade

One of the enduring ironies of the institution of slavery is that it was wrapped up in the law. While

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean concentrates on the question of agency, whereby narratives of life on plantations in Berbice

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery

A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved