slavery myths

How an old textbook lodged itself in the heart of New Orleans’ self-mythology.

Refusing myths of joy and pain in slave narratives.

On the intersectionality of enslaved women and common misunderstandings about slavery.

For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.

The history of Blackness on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.

Debunking the myths of the domestic slave trade.

Reconciliation is good — but not at any cost.

The bizarre and complex history of Black America, a theatrical production which revealed the conflicting possibilities of self-expression in a racist society.

White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk.

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.

Is it possible to write a good Civil War romance?

A profile of UVA graduate R.T.W. Duke Jr., who presided over the 1924 dedication of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville.

The first Africans who came to America in 1619 were not ‘enslaved’, they were indentured – and this is a crucial difference.

Michael W. Twitty on the changing tides of plantation interpretation.

Certain pundits are misrepresenting the biography of the "first black slaveholder."

And how a handful of black Southerners helped perpetuate it after the Civil War.

The genealogy site fails to understand the fundamental differences between white and black history.

White women and the economy of slavery.

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.

The governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression.