In slavery matters, numbers are still relevant
Numbers are not everything, but in the case of the Atlantic slave trade they reveal the importance of the institution of slavery and the size of populations of African descent…
Finally in Brazil: Heritage Trails of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Historians Hebe Mattos and Martha Abreu published an excellent article on their weblog (it is in Portuguese and featured on this website in the menu Digital initiatives) about the new heritage trail…
A New “Slavery” Museum in the United States ?
In a famous interview of 1989, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison pointed out that her book Beloved (1987) was a site of memory of slavery as sites of the slave…
Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery by Adam Rothman
Adam Rothman’s new book Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery (Harvard University Press, 2015) brings to light the experiences of enslaved men, women, and children on…
12 Years a Slave and the Problem of Depicting Human Atrocities
The problem of portraying extreme violence is part of scholarly and public debates since the end of the Second World War. After the Holocaust, whereas some scholars considered fiction an…