slavery
On October 16, 1859, radical Republican John Brown and a small band of followers, both white and black, launched a violent attack against the American system of slave labor at.
Gabriel Winant's long-form book review of Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. A brief excerpt: People, too, suffered the violence of abstraction. Over.
Although I could do without the big sweeping Hollywood music in the trailer, Steve McQueen's adaptation of Solomon Northup's slave narrative 12 Years a Slave looks to be incredibly promising..
Does it go too far to compare stand your ground laws with slave patrols? Given the ability of George Zimmerman to slay a random nonthreatening black kid like Trayvon Martin.
Forbes is a terrible magazine in general, but now that it is reviving the idea that the tariff was the real reason for the Civil War, it's adding bad history.
Paula Deen, a racist wistfully desiring black slaves.
It can't be stated often enough that slavery was inexorably tied with the rise of capitalism in the United States. Historian Walter Johnson: Without slavery, however, the survey maps of.
Christopher Cameron has an interesting post at the U.S. Intellectual History blog about George Washington's growing abolitionism. Historians ignored this side of Washington for a very long time, but in.