Who Should Tell the Story of Slavery? Henry Louis Gates on Slave Narratives.

Jamelle Bouie, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Rebecca Onion

July 24, 2015 12:31 PM

Sally Wasn’t the Only Hemings at Jefferson’s Monticello

Annette Gordon-Reed

July 09, 2015 1:00 PM

How a Cotton Bubble in 1830s Mississippi Revealed the Cracks in the Slave Economy

Joshua D. Rothman

July 09, 2015 12:27 PM

What Slavery Did to Families, and How They Fought Back

Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie

July 09, 2015 12:20 PM

This Haunting Animation Maps the Journeys of 15,790 Slave Ships in Two Minutes

Jamelle Bouie and Andrew Kahn

June 25, 2015 1:35 PM

How Did Slavery End in the North?

Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie

June 24, 2015 11:30 AM

The History of American Slavery, Episode 3: Complete Transcript

Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie

June 18, 2015 5:48 PM

How White Americans Justified Tearing Enslaved Families Apart

Heather Andrea Williams

June 17, 2015 5:27 AM

Why America’s Revolutionary Fight for Freedom Failed Its Slaves

Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie

June 17, 2015 3:25 AM

The Two Court Cases That Effectively Ended Slavery in Massachusetts

Douglas R. Egerton

June 16, 2015 10:00 AM

Ten Surprising Facts About the Demographics of American Slavery

Rebecca Onion

June 12, 2015 12:07 PM

The Freed Slave Whose Epic Book Tour Taught Britain About Slavery

Adam Hochschild

June 03, 2015 3:38 PM

Puritan Massachusetts Colonists Viewed Slaves as “Family.” Were They?

Emily Blanck

June 03, 2015 3:08 PM

Read Olaudah Equiano’s Autobiography: The First Widely-Read Narrative of a Freed Slave

Olaudah Equiano

June 03, 2015 2:00 PM

The History of American Slavery, Episode 2: Complete Transcript

Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie

June 02, 2015 4:34 PM

The Most Detailed Account of a Slave Ship Ever Penned

Marcus Rediker

May 19, 2015 1:55 PM

The Story of America’s First Slaves

Ira Berlin

May 19, 2015 12:14 PM

The Reason America Adopted Race-Based Slavery

Peter H. Wood

May 19, 2015 11:29 AM

Slave or Enslaved Person? It’s Not Just an Academic Debate.

Katy Waldman

May 19, 2015 10:29 AM

The (New) History of American Slavery

Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion

May 19, 2015 10:05 AM