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JAAH 93:4: Special Issue on the End of the Slave Trade
The Journal of African American History volume 93:4 is a special issue commemorating the bicentennial of the outlawing of the Atlantic slave trade by the United States. First paragraph steal from the...
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Paton on Enslaved Women and Slavery circa 1807 (and more)
Posted at History in Focus, a 14 volume journal published by the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. [On the main page, the link to the issue on slavery is broken. Access it...
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WEB: Levy on Failure of the Freedman’s Bank and the Gilded Age (LOC Webcast)
ACLS Mellon Fellow Jonathan Levy discusses the failure of the Freedman Savings and Trust Company at the Library of Congress: In 1865, Congress chartered the non-profit “Freedman’s Savings and Trust...
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BOOK: Mintz & Stauffer, et. al. on the Problem of Evil & Slavery
Mintz, Steven, and John Stauffer. The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, And the Ambiguities of American Reform. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. From the University of Massachusetts...
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BOOK: Rael, et. al. on African-American Activism
Rael, Patrick, ed. African-American Activism before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North. New edition. New York City, NY: Routledge, 2008. From the Routledge website:...
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BOOK: Wallace and Smith on Early Photography and African American Identity
Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith, eds. Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. via Duke University...
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ARTICLE: Milbrandt on Livingstone and the Law (via The Legal History Blog)
Jay Milbrandt, “Livingstone and the Law: Africa’s Greatest Explorer and the Abolition of the Slave Trade.” SSRN eLibrary (August 20, 2012). Abstract: Few historical events have had such tragic,...
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EDITED: Gleeson and Lewis on the Bicentennial of the International Slave...
David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis, eds. Ambiguous Anniversary: The Bicentennial of the International Slave Trade Bans. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012. From University of South...
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EDITED: Fradera and Schmidt-Nowara on Slavery in Spain’s Atlantic Empire
Josep Maria Fradera and Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, eds. Slavery and Antislavery in Spain’s Atlantic Empire. New York: Berghahn Books, 2013. via Berghahn Books: African slavery was pervasive in...
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BOOK: Oakes on End of Slavery in the U.S.
James Oakes. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. Via W. W. Norton: Freedom National is a groundbreaking history...
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Bonner on Frederick Douglass’s Compressed, Expanding World | @AAIHS
Christopher Bonner writes: “As Douglass saw it, technological development enhanced political work. Steamships brought news from Europe in as few as fifteen days, which struck him as an immediate kind...
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BOOK: Sinha on Abolition as the “Slave’s Cause”
Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. via Yale U Press: “Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white...
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BOOK: Pryor on “Colored Travelers” before the Civil War
Elizabeth S. Pryor, Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. via UNC Press: “Americans have long...
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Rael on the “All Lives Matter” Debate in 1837 @AAIHS
Patrick Rael writes: “In 1837, leading African American thinkers debated the question in the black press. At issue was whether or not it was right for institutions designed for black uplift to close...
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DIGITAL: The Abolitionists Map of America
via Amistad Research Center: Explore the story of the abolitionist movement in America through our interactive map. Dozens of museums, institutions and PBS stations have partnered with American...
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BOOK: Cobb on Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century |...
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century. New York: NYU Press, 2015. via NYU Press: “In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many...
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BLOGROLL: Two Visions of Abolition and Emancipation #OAH18
Evan Turïano reports on #OAH2018 panels, including the “State of the Field: Abolition and Emancipation” for Muster: Roger Taney’s (empty) bust in Baltimore “In a question posed from the audience,...
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