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August 28, 2017
Race, Removal, and the Rights to Remain in the Early American Republic  Samantha Seeley joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her book...
August 14, 2017
The Pirates, the Judge, and the Amistad Trial: Or How the Panda Slavers May Have Determined the Fate of the Amistad Africans  Professor Manuel Barcia joins Thomas Thurston...
August 1, 2017
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the 19th annual Frederick Douglass Book...
July 31, 2017
The Wickedest City in America: Sex, Race, and Organized Crime in the Jim Crow South: Dr. Tammy Ingram joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavey and Its Legacies. They...
July 17, 2017
Movements of Black Refugees during the Civil War Era: Thomas Thurston spoke with Abigail Cooper, an Assistant Professor in History at Brandeis University and a visiting...
June 2, 2017
Draft Resisters and the Enduring Myth of Canada as the Promised Land: In this episode, Yale PhD candidate Wendell Adjetey discusses how US draft resisters in the 1960s and...
May 25, 2017
Ever since Donald Trump became President I have believed his greatest threat to our society and to our democracy is not necessarily his authoritarianism, but his essential...