"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
https://t.co/IWX7cFrddI
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!
https://t.co/eTMzMxgIqt
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 https://t.co/1YaPYoGrzY
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: https://t.co/dKs5vfOTpd
And order the book: https://t.co/WrjSMuMkp2
Today! 3pmE/2pmC on Facebook Live - https://t.co/T3nwnj4dM3
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.
https://t.co/29ylGGfo3s
Beginning this Thursday, the University of Oklahoma is hosting multiple online events to commemorate the Tulsa Race Massacre. See the schedule here: https://t.co/kvlm7ASHyo
Call for Contributors - Resistance, Survival, and Associativism: Reinventing Life in the Spaces of Modern Slavery (16th-19th Centuries). https://t.co/nzJaO0J4IW
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: https://t.co/vKHvaGtGkN
Our Spring 2020 Newsletter has just gone out. Review our archive and sign up here: https://t.co/htzlTp7Z5z
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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: https://t.co/7FesLBmths