Professor Samantha Pinto discusses her book, Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights. Using the idea of “vulnerability” as a touchstone […]
Episode 44 – Native American Slavery with Andres Resendez
Professor Reséndez discusses his book, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Prof. Reséndez discusses pre-Colonial enslavement among the native people […]
Episode 43 – The Transcontinental Ambitions of the American South with Kevin Waite
Professor Waite discusses his book, West of Slavery: the Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. He explains his thesis that the Southern Slave States had […]
Episode 42 – Slavery in the Chickasaw Nation with Nakia Parker
Professor Nakia Parker discusses her article, “Regarded as an Appendage of His Family: Slavery, Family, and the Law in Indian Territory.” Chattel slavery spread into […]
Episode 41 – Black Slaves, Indian Masters with Barbara Krauthamer
Professor Barbara Krauthamer discusses her book, Black Slaves, Indian Masters, which examines the role of slavery in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations. She explores the […]
Episode 40 – Native American Slavery in New England with Margaret Ellen Newell
Professor Newell discusses her book, Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, which explores the enslavement of Indians by […]
Episode 39 – The History of Reparations with Manisha Sinha
Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D from Columbia University where her dissertation was […]
Episode 38 – Smashing Monuments with Erin Thompson
Professor Erin Thompson discusses her book, “Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments.” Prof. Thompson explains the role of Confederate monuments, what […]
Episode 37 – Estimating the Cost of Reparations with Thomas Craemer
Thomas Craemer obtained a political science doctorate in 2001 from the University of Tuebingen in his native Germany, and a PhD from Stony Brook University, […]
Episode 36 – Reparations and Black Slave Owners with Reginald Bell
Reginald L. Bell is a Professor of Management in the College of Business at Prairie View A&M University. Bell received his PhD in Business Education […]