Nation Topics - Slavery in America | The Nation

Edward P. Jones’s characters know that everything they’ve worked for might suddenly be taken from them.

Public sympathies and political outcomes over the Amistad Africans drifted in opposite directions.

How social equality was used to discredit the egalitarian project of Reconstruction.

Too many Americans have fallen prey to narratives that erase the role of slavery in the war’s origins and legacy.

Robin Blackburn's The American Crucible treats modern slavery as an international institution with national histories.

The horrors of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database arise through the cumulative weight of its abstract pieces of information.

On the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade, a documentarian tries to come to grips with her family's history in the trade.

Marcus Rediker's breathtaking "human history" of the slave ship reveals how the transatlantic slave trade demeaned everyone it touched.

The Radical and the Republican traces the antislavery politics of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.

The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.