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Portraits of Confederate House Speakers Removed From Capitol

Elliot Hannon

June 19, 2020 8:36 AM
Now Is the Time to Refresh Your Memory on the History of American Slavery

Rebecca Onion

Feb 01, 2020 5:30 AM
“The Psychological Effect of Slavery on [the Slave Owner] Was Fatal”

Jamelle Bouie

Dec 07, 2016 3:27 PM
Blogging W.E.B. DuBois’ Black Reconstruction

Jamelle Bouie

Dec 01, 2016 2:48 PM
Native American Slavery: An Interactive

Andrew Kahn and Brett Rushforth

Jan 18, 2016 5:31 AM
Native American Slaves: Historians Uncover an Overlooked, Chilling Chapter in U.S. History

Rebecca Onion

Jan 18, 2016 5:30 AM
I Spent a Year Reading and Talking About American Slavery. Here’s What I Learned.

Rebecca Onion

Oct 14, 2015 4:16 PM
The Desperate, Hopeful Ads Freed People Published in Search of Their Lost Relatives After the Civil War

Heather Andrea Williams

Oct 13, 2015 3:04 PM
Did We Miss the Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History?

Steven Hahn

Oct 13, 2015 2:59 PM
What Did the Emancipation Proclamation Actually Accomplish?
Podcast Episode Slate Academy: The History of American Slavery Oct 13, 2015 6:00 AM
How to Get America to Talk Honestly About Slavery
Oct 08, 2015 7:25 AM
How to Talk Honestly About Slavery
Podcast Episode Slate Academy: The History of American Slavery Oct 08, 2015 6:00 AM
How Did a Texas Textbook End Up Describing Slaves as “Workers From Africa”?

Laura Moser

Oct 06, 2015 2:27 PM
One Community’s Epic Standoff Against the Fugitive Slave Law

Steven Lubet

Sept 22, 2015 5:19 PM
How Enslaved People Helped Rout Slavery in New Orleans

Adam Rothman

Sept 22, 2015 5:17 PM
Underground Railroad Stories that America Likes to Tell Itself
Podcast Episode Slate Academy: The History of American Slavery Sept 22, 2015 6:00 AM
These Conductor’s Records Reveal How the Underground Railroad Worked

Eric Foner

Sept 03, 2015 11:17 AM
How Doctors Justified Slavery
Podcast Episode Slate Academy: The History of American Slavery Sept 03, 2015 6:00 AM
An Essential Tool That Fueled the Cotton Industry’s Explosive Growth. (It’s Not the Cotton Gin.)

Edward E. Baptist

Aug 24, 2015 11:24 AM
Antebellum Enslavers Struggled to Control Their Single Economic Wellspring: Female Sexuality

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Aug 24, 2015 10:50 AM