“The Slave That Reads Is The First To Run Away”: A Free Database of the Major...
1760-1800 Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life. London: J. Nichols, 1782. [Link to Volume Two]...
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Making their Voices Heard: Women and Mental Health Reform in the Nineteenth...
“…Men of Massachusetts, I beg, I implore, I demand, pity and protection for these of my suffering, outraged sex!”—Dorothea Dix, Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts Mental illness was no new...
View ArticleWestward Expansion & the American Civil War
To many nineteenth century Americans, the expansion of slavery into Western territories caused a great deal of controversy. Since the drafting of the Constitution in 1787, the North and the South had...
View ArticleGender and Race in the Antebellum Slavery Debates
In 1851, Sojourner Truth, a freed slave from New York, purportedly asked, “Ain’t I a Woman?” at a women’s convention in Akron, Ohio. That same year, William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Boston...
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The Boundaries of Law: Slaves and the Court in Antebellum America
On March 6, 1857, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court came to a decision concerning African Americans in the law and the nation. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared, “In the opinion of the court,...
View ArticleBack to the Future: Historians Against Slavery and the Return of the Scholar...
On September 19, 2013 approximately 120 registrants gathered in Cincinnati’s National Underground Freedom Center for a conference sponsored by Historians Against Slavery (HAS). The event marked a...
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