Memory as a Response to the Problem of Slavery
This text is based on my intervention in the final roundtable of the 2015 Gilder Lehman International Conference held at Yale University, on October 30-31, 2015. I thank David Blight and…
Slavery in the Colonial North and the Philipsburg Manor
In the last two decades scholars made significant efforts to emphasize the existence of slavery in the US north. Despite these efforts and because scholarship takes time to reach the…
The Ark of Return: UN Slavery Memorial to be Unveiled Today in New York City
Today, March 25, 2015, is the United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, whose theme this year is Women and Slavery. As a…
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…