Using History to Make Slavery History.
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"With the U.S. now officially celebrating Juneteenth as a federal holiday, we need to confront modern-day prison violence and coerced prison labor that treats incarcerated people as slaves."
from HAS co-director Robert Chase
facingsouth.org/2021/06/voic…
Former HAS Co-Director Matthew Mason interviewed board member Ben Wright about Wright's new book Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism. Check it out!
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Robin P. Chapdelaine on _The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria_
To learn more about this important new book and for a 30% discount code, see historiansagainstslavery.org…
Next week, @BlkPerspectives will host a roundtable on Robert Chase's excellent _We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America_
Learn more about the roundtable: aaihs.org/online-roundtable-…
And order the book: uncpress.org/book/9781469653…
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Today! 3pmE/2pmC on Facebook Live - facebook.com/events/10536231…
Join me and Rich Newman as we discuss my book Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism.
HAS happily sponsors the Slaveries since Emancipation series with @CambridgeUP. Read HAS board member @benjamingwright's interview with @Hannah_RoseM on her new book Advocates of Freedom African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles.
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Check out the other excellent titles in the @CambridgeUP Slaveries since Emancipation series: cambridge.org/core/series/sl….
And if you are in London, make sure to check out @Hannah_RoseM's Black abolitionist walking tour!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-b…
CFP - Invisible Labor in Carceral Spaces
A Special Issue of @ILWCHJournal (International Labor and Working-Class History)
Beginning this Thursday, the University of Oklahoma is hosting multiple online events to commemorate the Tulsa Race Massacre. See the schedule here: ou.edu/tulsa1921/schedule
Call for Contributors - Resistance, Survival, and Associativism: Reinventing Life in the Spaces of Modern Slavery (16th-19th Centuries). networks.h-net.org/node/1146…
A statement and brief reading list from the #twitterstorians and activists of Historians Against Slavery:
historiansagainstslavery.org…
#saytheirnames
Call for Book Chapters - Human Trafficking: Global History and Global Perspectives. 250 word abstracts due June 30. For more information see this H-Net posting: networks.h-net.org/node/2844…
What does COVID 19 mean for enslaved people? Robert Wright asked just this question: historiansagainstslavery.org…
As we all struggle with this deadly pandemic, let us not forget the most vulnerable. Sobering reflections from @amandaklonsky1 historynewsnetwork.org/artic…
Our Spring 2020 Newsletter has just gone out. Review our archive and sign up here: tinyletter.com/HistoriansAga…
(we send no more than a five or six emails a year)
This edition includes links to work from @TLeFlouria & @DainaRameyBerry, James Brewer Stewart, and @benjamingwright.
Inspiring piece in @NewYorker about efforts to preserve African American history in Richmond. There are heroes at work among us. Read more about some of them: newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
