In February I attended Lisa Lindsay’s talk, Atlantic Bonds: 19th Century odyssey from America to Africa. According to a 1975 Ebony magazine article, James Churchill…
I spent time searching the abolitionist and historical newspapers available on Accessible Archives. In our last class I mentioned there were over four hundred references…
Here we go again: Why were different shades of color used in American abolitionists publications to describe slaves? I argue depictions and descriptions of “whiteness”…
Recently, I subscribed to Accessible Archives, an online, full text searchable database of 18th and 19th century publications. The database has a collection of eight…
I found a potential panel discussion for the upcoming Historians Against Slavery Conference being held in September in Cincinnati. I plan to attend the conference…
When I read the assignments for the week I was worried about having to try something new during my weekly readings. I was skeptical, much…
I began searching WorldCat for information related to my topic. I use the advances searching option and searched for the phrase “white slaves” (in quotes)…
I met with Dr. Quigley again this past week and asked him if he would be willing to be my thesis advisor. He agreed, but…
Recently I became interested in a group of historians who created an organization to fight modern day slavery called Historians Against Slavery. Their motto is…
Brett Walker argues that humans should rejoin the animal kingdom, or at least admit that they could never leave a group with which they belong,…
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