History education has been under attack recently. Or, more specifically, efforts to accurately teach the painful, brutal history of slavery are under attack. Teaching the hard history of slavery has long been a problem in American classrooms. Recently, the battle over state curriculum standards has intensified as some seek to revive a version of history […]
Teaching Slavery, Possibilities for Historical Restitution, and the Papers of Indigenous Enslaver Rebecca McIntosh Hawkins Hagerty
You cannot find the Muscogee Nation in most state-standardized social studies curricula. Take it from an educator who taught high school history in Buffalo, NY for seven years. The sovereign nation, which recently dropped the settler-dubbed “Creek” from its official title, is one of the largest in the country, with a membership of nearly 90,000.[1] […]
The African and Asian Diasporas in Early Mexico: A Conversation on Slavery and Freedom with Professor Tatiana Seijas
by Gary Leo Dunbar In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better visualize the ethical and political implications of archival practices globally. The conference was held in February 2022 and the videos of all the presentation will […]
IHS Podcast: Colonial Peru’s Fractional Freedoms meet Morgan’s Thesis: American Freedom, American Slavery
IHS podcasts are a new podcast series initiated by the Institute for Historical Studies’ Director, Dr Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. They are paired with weekly workshops and are designed to foster discussion between graduate students and distinguished scholars in the field. Along with graduate students and guests, each episode features Dr Cañizares-Esguerra and Ashley Garcia, a PhD […]
This is Democracy – Black Resistance to Slavery in Early America and its Legacies
Guest: Daina Ramey Berry is the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History and Chairperson of the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Fellow of the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and the George W. Littlefield Professorship in American History, and the former Associate Dean of The Graduate […]
15 Minute History – Slavery in the West
Guest: Kevin Waite, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Durham University Host: Alina Scott, PhD Student in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin In the antebellum years, freedom and unfreedom often overlapped, even in states that were presumed “free states.” According to a new book by Kevin Waite, […]
An Inconvenient Past: Slavery at the Texas Governor’s Mansion
By Kyle Walker Completed in 1856, the Texas Governor’s Mansion is the oldest executive residence west of the Mississippi River and the fourth oldest continuously occupied executive residence in the US. Between 1856 and 1865, eight men would serve as the Governor of Texas and call this residence home. While the histories of these men […]
The Long History and Legacy of Slavery in the Americas and Beyond
Over the past decade, Not Even Past has published a wide range of resources that focus on the history of slavery. These are intended for use in the classroom and are collected here as a resource for teachers. Articles White Women and the Economy of Slavery White slave-owning women were not the only ones to […]
Slavery in Early Austin: The Stringer’s Hotel and Urban Slavery
On the eve of the Civil War, an advertisement appeared in the Texas Almanac announcing the sale of five enslaved people at the Stringer’s Hotel. “Negroes For Sale––I will offer for sale, in the city of Austin, before the Stringer’s Hotel, on the 1st day of January next, to the highest bidder, in Confederate or […]
Documenting Slavery in East Texas: Transcripts from Monte Verdi
By Daniel J. Thomas III Originally from Macon, Alabama, Julien Sidney Devereux, Sr (1805-1856) moved to east Texas where he eventually purchased land in Rusk County. This plat would eventually become Monte Verdi, one of the highest producing cotton plantations in the state, where over fifty Africans were enslaved. The Devereux family papers and the […]