Slavery

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Robert Smalls pictured between 1870-1880.
The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls
Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.
Forces of Good and Evil
Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Such a Disappointment
Emancipation Memorial Statue
Emancipation by What Means?
American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837
Revisiting Long Histories of the Reparations Debate
The Slave Trade by Auguste Francois Biard (1833).
When Free Trade Meant Something Else
Feminist activists demonstrating on London’s Downing Street.
The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
A French Quarter Pontalba Row building.
A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupy Wall Street and the NAACP protesting in New York in 2011.
A History of Stolen Citizenship
A rendering of the Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, which was fought on April 12, 1864 in Tennessee. It ended with a massacre by Confederate soldiers of at least one hundred surrendered black troops serving the Union, exemplifying one of the Civil War's transgressions of the norms of warfare.
The American Civil War, Then and Now
Richard and Mildred Loving
Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America
Abraham Lincoln
Top Ten Origins: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Django Unchained movie poster
The Law of Slavery Lies at the Heart of the Movies “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained”
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.
After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807
Anti-Christian sign in Federal Plaza Chicago 2008
Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible
Contrabands—fugitive slaves—cooks, laundresses, laborers, teamsters, railroad repair crews—fled to the Union Army, but were not officially freed until 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation.
In Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Central Role of Slavery Must Not Be Forgotten
"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.
The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery
Medical examination photo of Gordon showing his scourged back, widely distributed by Abolitionists to expose the brutality of slavery. From at least the 1860s onwards, photography was a powerful tool in the abolitionist movement.
Can Reparations Heal the Wounds of Slavery?
Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.
Ivy and Slavery
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis.
Apologizing for Slavery