Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...
Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...
Documentary series exploring the abolition of Slavery in the British Dominions in 1833. In Episode 1 of this two-part ...
Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...
ON OCT. 5, 1862, Rev. Andrew T. Foss of Manchester lost his beloved 26-year-old son, Pvt. Eugene Kincaid Foss. The younger Foss, a musician in the Fourth Regiment N.H. Volunteer Infantry band, had ...
Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...
More than 400 years have passed since chattel slavery was deemed a respectable and integral part of the American economy and policy. Still, there are folks who try to rewrite history and “whitewash” ...
I enjoyed the recent article “Juneteenth is a celebration of history many Americans tried to hide.” I find it disheartening that there are still many aspects of our history intentionally hidden or ...