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"According to My Reckoning": Remembering and Commemorating Slavery and Emancipation

"And Tell Me Poet, Can Love Exist in Slavery?" Letters of the Unfree before Emancipation

A Biography of the Domestic Slave Trade

A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

A White Historian Confronts American Slavery

Abraham Lincoln and the Meaning of American Citizenship

Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and Race

African American Slavery in the Native American South

African Americans and the Anglo-American Abolitionist Movement

African Americans and the Meaning of Freedom

African Americans, the British Working Class, and the Struggle for Freedom in the United States

American Slave Systems in Comparative Perspective

Antislavery and Abolitionism

B

"Buy for the Sake of the Slave": How Abstemious Abolitionists (and Southern Nationalists) Invented Modern Consumer Activism

Beasts of the Southern Wild: Tracking Non-Human Animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States (1836)

Black Liberation in the Era of the American Revolution

By Land and by Water: The Problem of Mobility in American Slavery

C

Community Resistance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law

Consumer Boycotts as Abolitionist Strategy: Free, Family, and Requited Labor in the Antebellum United States

Cosmopolitan Captives: Globe-trotting Slaves in the Age of Secession

D

Did Nat Turner "Confess"?

E

Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (about the documentary film)

Partus Sequitur Ventrum: Slave Law and the Histories of Women in Slavery

Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865

Emancipation and Reconstruction in the Native American South

Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom

Emancipation in the 1860s: Russia and the U. S. South

F

Facing Slavery's Legacy at Georgetown University

Female Slave Resistance in the Antebellum South

Film Screening and Discussion -- "Anna"

Finding the Origins of American Capitalism in the Archives of Southern Slavery

Flatbush Renaissance: Slavery and Education in Revolutionary New York

Force, Freedom, and the End of Slavery

Four Roads to Emancipation: Lincoln, the Law, and the Proclamation

Franklin and Armfield: An American Slave Trading Colossus

Freedom as Method: Slavery, Prisons, and the Modern Carceral State

From Border States to Border South: Slavery, Civil War, and the Politics of Identity in the Border Slave States

From Richmond to New Orleans and Everywhere In Between: Have You Noticed That There Is No National Slave Trade Trail?

From the Amistad to the Wildfire: Northern Black Activists Confront the Illegal Transatlantic Slave Trade

Fugitive Slaves in the Midwest

G

Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World

Gender and Slavery in the Caribbean

Gender and Slavery in the United States

Goat Bones in the Basement: A Tale of Race, Gender, and Haunting in Old Savannah

Grandmothering in Antebellum Slave Families and Communities

H

Harriet Jacobs’s 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl': Slave Narratives and the Antislavery Struggle

Historical Methodology, Ethics, and the Archives of Slavery

Historical Reflections on the Interracial Struggle to End Slavery

Histories of Slavery in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter

How Can I Possibly Teach About Harriet Tubman When I Have to Get to World War I by January 10: Integrating Class, Race, and Gender into the Social Studies Curriculum in the Age of High-Stakes Testing

How Slavery Really Ended in America: Three Black Virginians Who Crossed a River and Changed History

How the Electoral College Protected Slavery

How to Teach American Slavery

I

In Search of Confederate Slaves

Interracial Sex and Slave Women's Labor in the Old South

Is Freedom White?

J

John Brown, Harpers Ferry, and the Coming of the Civil War

John Locke and Slavery: A Reconsideration

K

Killing and Dying for the Confederacy

L

"Liberty to the Captive": Fugitive Slaves in Civil-War Washington, D.C.

Legacies of Slavery in West Africa

Liberty, Slavery, and the Coming of the Civil War

M

Mrs. Dred Scott

Museums and Heritage Tourism in the Black Atlantic World

N

Nat Turner on Film

Native American Slavery in Global Context

Never Caught: Ona Judge, the Washingtons, and the Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave

New England Bound: Slavery and Colonialism in early America

Northern Slavery and Emancipation

Not (Quite) an Abolitionist: Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery

Not without My Daughter: The Postwar Underground World of Harriet and Louisa Jacobs

P

Paternalism after Its Triumph: The White Mission to the Slaves in Late Antebellum Charleston

Plantation Provisions and the National Economy of Slavery in Antebellum America

Protest in Black and White: African American Writers Confront Atlantic Slavery

R

Redemption Songs: Stories of Slaves Suing for Freedom

Rethinking Emancipation

Revisiting the Critiques of Justices who Upheld the Fugitive Slave Acts

S

Secession, Slavery, and the Causes of the Civil War

Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Enslaved Men

Slave Emancipation and Human Rights

Slave Emancipation, Indian Peoples, and the Projects of the New American State

Slave Labor and Cotton Production in Antebellum Mississippi

Slave Resistance and the Making of American Abolition

Slaveholding Mistresses and Enslaved Women in the Plantation Household

Slavery and American Universities

Slavery and Early American Nationalism

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah

Slavery and Freedom in the North

Slavery and Suicide in North America

Slavery and the Common Law

Slavery and the Constitution

Slavery and the Constitution

Slavery and the Declaration of Independence: The Deleted Clauses

Slavery and the Southern Economy: Myths and Realities

Slavery and the University in the Pre–Civil War South

Slavery and the Value of Human Chattels

Slavery in American History and Memory

Slavery in New York City

Slavery, Freedom, and the American Constitution

Slavery, Law, and the Constitution

Slaves Named and Un-named: Recovering the Lives of the Pinckneys' Enslaved Laborers in a Digital Edition

Slaves on Film: Popular Cinema and the Civil War Era

Social Death and Social Life in Recaptive African Forced Migrations

Sounds of Slavery

T

"The Best Place to Try the Experiment": Emancipation in Washington, D.C., April 1862

"Their Great Commoditie": Gender, Commodification, and the Origins of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The Abolitionist International: Anatomy of a Radical Social Movement

The Abolitionist Origins of Radical Reconstruction

The Abolitionist Origins of the Women's Rights Movement

The Breakdown of Slavery in the Civil War South

The Cause of Her Grief: The Rape of a Slave in Early New England

The Confederate Debate Over Arming the Slaves

The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Empire of Cotton: A Global History

The Essence of Liberty: Free African American Women Before Slavery Ended

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

The Impact of Antebellum Slave Migrations on Family and Community Life

The Language of Enslaved People as Culture, Humanity, and Resistance

The Legacy of Emancipation in Post-Civil-War Washington, DC

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

The Life Cycle of Slave Children in the Nineteenth-Century South

The Nat Turner Slave Rebellion

The Nat Turner Trials

The New History of American Slaveries

The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution

The Other Emancipation of the 1860s: A Comparative Perspective on Freeing Russia's Serfs

The Other Slavery: Coerced Indian Labor in North America

The Political Significance of Slave Resistance

The Politics of Enslaved Women's Self-Liberation

The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

The Real Story of the Underground Railroad

The Revolt against the Indies Company in Haiti, 1720–1725

The Roots of Quasi-Freedom: Slavery, Manumission, and the African American Community of Early National Baltimore

The Slave Female World of Sally Hemings

The Slave's Cause: A New History of Abolition

The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Disunion Rhetoric and the Coming of the Civil War

The Slavery Question in the Old South: Evolving White Attitudes, 1787-1840

The Slavery Question: How Ex-Confederates Thought about Their Peculiar Institution

The Stono Slave Uprising of 1739

The Story of Slavery through the Voices of the Formerly Enslaved

The Time of Slavery: History, Memory, Politics, and the Constitution

The Trail the Slaves Made: Captivity and Coerced Labor on the Santa Fe Trail in the U.S.-Mexico War Era

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Disposable Lives

The Underground Railroad and the Coming of the Civil War

The World of Books and the World of Slavery: A Jamaican Case Study

Thomas Jefferson and Slavery

Thomas Jefferson, Race, and Slavery

Threading the Loophole: Slavery as Punishment Before and After the Thirteenth Amendment

U

Understanding the Underground Railroad: Why We Love Antebellum Law Breakers

Undoing Slavery: Abolition and the Argument over Humanity

Union and Slavery: How Union Veterans Remembered the Civil War

United States Slavery

Universities and Slavery: Georgetown's Past, Georgetown's Present

Universities Confront Their Histories of Slavery and Race

Urban Slavery in Savannah

W

Walt Whitman, Slavery, and Democracy

War, Politics, and Slavery

Was Emancipation a War Crime?

Was John Brown America's First Terrorist?

What Did the Slaves Think of Lincoln?

What the Fathers Founded: The Constitution, Slavery, and Resistance before the Civil War

With Only a Trace: Same-Sex Sexual Violence on Slave Plantations in the United States, 1607-1861

Writing Slavery into Freedom’s Story

Y

"You Just Had to Depend on Yourself": Self-Reliance and the Healing Work of Enslaved Women

York: The Slave on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

1

1619 vs. 1620: Slaves versus Pilgrims in the Struggle over America’s Founding