Among the most important and most troubling occurrences that historians research are slavery and the slave trade. According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic to North and South America to be forced into slavery. As many as 2 million died in transit. In recent decades, the history of slavery has evolved to include Indigenous North and South Americans as well as the enslavement of Indians (from the Asian sub-continent) by the British in the 17th century.
At Not Even Past, we want to help people work through the difficult history of slavery. This index offers a growing list of our book reviews, articles, and podcasts related to slavery. They engage issues as varied as capitalism, labor, race, gender, and love, among others. We hope this collection can act as a resource for teachers looking to build curriculum, and portal for all curious readers interested in new writing and scholarly debates.
Books on Slavery
Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America by John M. Monteiro (2018)
Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, by Barbara Krauthamer (2013)
Driven Toward Madness: The Fugative Slave Margaret Garner on the Ohio by Nikki M. Taylor (2016)
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World; Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade by Roquinaldo Ferreira (2012)
Madeleine’s Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets and Lies in France’s Indian Ocean Colonies, by Sue Peabody (2017)
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (2015)
Slaves and Englishmen, by Michael Guasco (2014)
Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil’s Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves, by Glenn Cheney (2014) – by Edward Shore
Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslin Uprising of 1835 in Bahia by João José Reis (1993) – by Michael Hatch
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2002) – by Daina Ramey Berry and Jermaine Thibodeaux
Articles on Slavery
Love in the Time of Texas Slavery – by María Esther Hammack
White Women and the Economy of Slavery – by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
The Public Archive: The Paperwork of Slavery – Galia Sims
US Survey Course: Slavery
Slavery and Race in Colonial Latin America
Slavery and its Legacy – by Mark Sheaves
#Blacklivesmatter Till They Don’t: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy – by Daina Ramey Berry and Jennifer L. Morgan
Slavery in America: Back in the Headlines – by Daina Ramey Berry
Andrew Cox Marshall: Between Slavery and Freedom in Savannah – by Tania Sammons
More to Read on Urban Slavery
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah – by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry
The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Atlantic Slavery – by Samantha Rubino
Visualizing Emancipation(s): Mapping the End of Slavery in America – by Henry Wiencek
Daina Ramey Berry on Slavery, Work and Sexuality
Great Books on Slavery, Abolition, and Reconstruction – by Jacqueline Jones
The Littlefield Lectures: The Van and the Read: Abolitionists Roots of Radical Reconstruction (Day 1)
The Littlefield Lectures: The Van and the Rear: Abolitionists Roots of Radical Reconstruction (Day 2)
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh – by Daina Ramey Berry
The Illegal Slave Trade in Texas, 1808-1865 – by Maria Esther Hammack
Glimpsed in the Archive and Known no More: One Indian Slave’s Tale – by Sumit Guha
Mapping the Slave Trade: The New Archive (No. 10) – by Henry Wiencek
“12 Years a Slave” and the Difficulty of Dramatizing the “Peculiar Institution” – by Jermaine Thibodeaux
The Emancipation Proclamation and its Aftermath
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012) – by Daina Ramey Berry
Work Left Undone: Emancipation was not Abolition – by George Forgie
“Captive Fates: Displace American Indians in the Southwest Borderlands, Mexico, and Cuba, 1500-1800” – by Paul Conrad
Great Books on Enslaved Life and Labor in the US – by Daina Ramey Berry
Podcasts on Slavery
Episode 120: Slave-Owning Women in the Antebellum U.S.
Episode 114: Slavery in Indian Territory
Episode 105: Slavery and Abolition
Episode 98: Brazil’s Treatro Negro and Afro-Brazilian Identity
Episode 88: The Search for Family Lost in Slavery
Episode 70: Slavery and Abolition in Iran
Episode 54: Urban Slavery in the Antebellum U.S.
Episode 42: The Senses of Slavery
Compiled by Jesse Ritner
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