April 22, 2015 Historians Against Slavery Opinion
Historians Against Slavery
Historians Against Slavery brings historians, scholars, students, and activists together to discuss how the history of slavery can help to make slavery history. For more information, visit http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/
Posts by Historians Against Slavery
April 20, 2015 Historians Against Slavery Opinion
Connecting Slavery Then with Slavery Now: Part 1
Americans find it difficult to empathize with today's enslaved, believing instead that all slaves were black, that their owners were all white, and that the Thirteenth Amendment eliminated human bondage.
September 23, 2014 Historians Against Slavery Opinion
Am I Still Not a Man and a Brother?
Over the past 15 years, the antislavery movement’s visual culture has depicted a world of 30 million slaves. Beyond the inevitable presence of chains and bars, much of this visual culture uses four main tropes: the supplicant slave, the scourged back, the auction block and the slave ship.
