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A couple of months ago, Al blogged about " Traces of the Trade ," a documentary made by a descendant of the DeWolf family of Rhod...

At right is the cover of the Chowan County grand jury indictment, in spring 1829, of John Mann for the assault and battery of the slave Lydi...

I've been buried in work on University, Court, and Slave (though you couldn't tell it from how little progress I made last week), ...

Well, it's a Friday afternoon in June and though my favorite librarian recently told me I should be relaxing now that I'm moved int...

Been absurdly busy getting settled in lovely Chapel Hill. This week I had the pleasure of riding a bus home from work (and it's free,...

One of my favorite works of history is W. Sherman Savage ’s The Controversy Over the Distribution of Abolitionist Literature, 1830-1860 (193...

This repeats a post from a few years back over at moneylaw, where I used to post now and then. Yale recently took down a picture of Elihu ...

In honor of memorial day, I thought that I'd post on a most interesting will--that of Samuel Townsend of Madison County, Alabama. (Than...

I thought that I'd talk a little about my current project. I'm pretty excited about it, in part because it's something I'v...

Here are two of Sally's other pictures from the Ruffin Field trip. At left is one of the slaves' houses from the historic Stagvill...

How fun to see that my friend Catherine Bishir has posted a message on H-Material-Culture, cross-posted at H-Slavery, about a wonderful cele...

Today is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the importation of slaves into the United States. Did you know that? Historian Eric Foner...

The governing board of the University of Virginia has expressed its " particular regret " for its engagement with the peculiar in...

Following the leads of Virginia and Maryland, Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand on Wednesday filed a bill apologizing for slavery. On Thur...

It looks like the State of Maryland is on its way to apologizing for slavery. The Senate has unanimously done so, and it seems the House is...

If you haven't seen the Playmakers' fine production of The Bluest Eye , Toni Morrison's novel set to stage by Lydia R. Diamond,...

For a couple of years on the H-Net Slavery listserv I've been following the work of J.B. Bird, an amateur historian, as he's built ...

Toni Morrison's masterpiece, the best American novel of the past 25 years according to a New York Times survey, came out 20 years ago....

Since 1910 , presiding over meetings of the trustees of Yale University has been a portrait of Elihu Yale, attended by a slave. Word about i...

Who was the first black student at UNC? Pauli Murray George Moses Horton Zora Neale Hurston None of the above It was not...