For our latest podcast, we talked to Joshua Rothman, historian at the University of Alabama, about his recent book The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America..
"Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house"
The historian Kate Masur had a piece a bit ago about what we can learn from state-level battles over fugitive slave laws for our current abdication of the federal government.
On April 14, 1816, Bussa's Rebellion began in Barbados, when 5,000 slaves rose up against the evil system of slavery the British had placed them into, part of the broader.
Good piece on how slaves used Christmas as a chance to escape to freedom: It was the night before Christmas, and as Jarm would remember it later, “though cold, it.
Martha Jones, one of our finest historians of the Black freedom struggle, has a powerful essay on trying to find evidence about the life of Abigail, the slave of John.
On August 18, 1823, slaves in what is today Guyana rose up in what became known as the Demerara Rebellion. This was brutally suppressed by the English colonialists, but also.
On August 10, 1680, the Pueblo Revolt began in New Mexico. The most successful Native rebellion in the history of the Americas, this forced the Spanish out of their northern.
