In this interview, Professor Bronwen Everill discusses her book, Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition. She covers how Abolitionist Consumers attempted to end slavery with their pocketbooks—staging sugar boycotts and attempting to buy only items that were free from the slave trade.
Jonathan Wells on the Fugitive Slave Law
In this interview, Professor Jonathan Daniel Wells discusses his book, Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War.
David Krugler on 1919 Year of White Terrorism
Professor Krugler discusses his book, 1919: the Year of Racial Violence and How African Americans Fought Back. We specifically focus on Chicago and Knoxville riots with an eye on how Black World War I veterans factored into de-escalating the White mobs.
Steve Luxenberg on Plessy versus Ferguson
Steve Luxenberg discusses his nonfiction book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation, which was published in 2019 to critical acclaim.
Ibrahim Sundiata on Slavery and the 1619 Project
Professor Ibrahim K. Sundiata is Emeritus Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University.
Jennifer L. Morgan on Motherhood and Slavery
Professor Morgan discusses recent journal article “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery.”
1619 Interviews – Richard Rothstein
Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Randolph McLaughlin on Slavery in the Virginia Colony
Professor McLaughlin discusses is article, “The Birth of a Nation: A Study of Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Virginia”
1619 Interviews – Randall Balmer on Race and the Religious Right
Professor Balmer discusses his book BAD FAITH: RACE AND THE RISE OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT. Professor Balmer debunks the myth that the Religious Right formed around opposition to Abortion. Instead, he finds that the movement coalesced around de-segregation of white’s only Religious Universities.
Nancy Heitzeg on the School to Prison Pipeline
Dr. Nancy Heitzeg discusses her research and book “The School to Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards.”
1619 Interviews – Trevor Burnard on the Demise of the Royal African Company
Professor Burnard discusses his article “Pack of Knaves: The Royal African Company, the development of the Jamaican plantation economy and the benefits of monopoly, 1672‒1708.”
Paul Finkelman on Slavery and the Supreme Court
Paul Finkelman, the Chancellor of Gratz College, is the author of more than 100 law review articles, 100 other scholarly articles and more than fifty books.