Jay Milbrandt, “Livingstone and the Law: Africa’s Greatest Explorer and the Abolition of the Slave Trade.” SSRN eLibrary (August 20, 2012). Abstract: Few historical events have had such tragic, widespread, and lingering consequences as the exportation of slaves from Africa. While the abolition of western Africa’s transatlantic slave trade is well documented, the events and … Continue reading ARTICLE: Milbrandt on Livingstone and the Law (via The Legal History Blog)
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BOOK: Wallace and Smith on Early Photography and African American Identity
Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith, eds. Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. via Duke University Press: "The new book Pictures and Progress, co-edited by Duke Professor Maurice Wallace, looks at how the invention of photography was used for and against political … Continue reading BOOK: Wallace and Smith on Early Photography and African American Identity
BOOK: Rael, et. al. on African-American Activism
Rael, Patrick, ed. African-American Activism before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North. New edition. New York City, NY: Routledge, 2008. From the Routledge website: African-American Activism before the Civil War is the first collection of scholarship on the role of African Americans in the struggle for racial equality in the northern … Continue reading BOOK: Rael, et. al. on African-American Activism
BOOK: Mintz & Stauffer, et. al. on the Problem of Evil & Slavery
Mintz, Steven, and John Stauffer. The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, And the Ambiguities of American Reform. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. From the University of Massachusetts Press website: Leading scholars explore the moral dimension of American history A collective effort to present a new kind of moral history, this volume seeks to show … Continue reading BOOK: Mintz & Stauffer, et. al. on the Problem of Evil & Slavery
WEB: Levy on Failure of the Freedman’s Bank and the Gilded Age (LOC Webcast)
ACLS Mellon Fellow Jonathan Levy discusses the failure of the Freedman Savings and Trust Company at the Library of Congress: In 1865, Congress chartered the non-profit "Freedman's Savings and Trust Company," a savings bank designed for a population of four million newly emancipated American slaves. By 1873, it had received a staggering $50,000,000 in deposits. … Continue reading WEB: Levy on Failure of the Freedman’s Bank and the Gilded Age (LOC Webcast)
Paton on Enslaved Women and Slavery circa 1807 (and more)
Posted at History in Focus, a 14 volume journal published by the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. [On the main page, the link to the issue on slavery is broken. Access it here.] Excerpt below: This year's commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the passage of the British Act for the … Continue reading Paton on Enslaved Women and Slavery circa 1807 (and more)
JAAH 93:4: Special Issue on the End of the Slave Trade
The Journal of African American History volume 93:4 is a special issue commemorating the bicentennial of the outlawing of the Atlantic slave trade by the United States. First paragraph steal from the introduction by journal editor and Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside V. P. Franklin: "The year 2008 marks the … Continue reading JAAH 93:4: Special Issue on the End of the Slave Trade
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