slavery
Book Review: Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
We are living in a renaissance of historical writing. There's always been a good market for popularly written histories, but that market consisted of books on presidents and wars written.
Slaves, Montgomery, Alabama, 1861 Harold Meyerson overstates his argument on the Southern economy as the point of low-wage capitalist production both before the Civil War and today, but he makes.
I don't read much, or really any, political theory at this point in my life. It's an important field but I have little background in it and the start-up cost.
As this essay suggests, the Three-Fifths Compromise was a terrible deal for the North from the very beginning and would establish that slaveholders would use their slaves to make money.
A cool new visualization of the Atlantic slave trade. Could be interesting/useful to many of you. I'll probably use it for my U.S. history survey course in the fall.
Above: the slaves who catch and process your dinner One of the issues I talk about in Out of Sight is getting more publicity. The Burmese slaves sat on the.
I just finished reading Steven Kantrowitz's book from 2000, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Tillman, the South Carolina politician who became nationally famous for his public defense.
As many of you know, the response of some Confederate planters to the defeat of their treasonous actions was to decamp with their slaves to Brazil and start over. Today,.