Nation Topics - Slavery in America | The Nation

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.

Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.

Vincent Carretta's Equiano, the African is the complex narrative of a Carolina
slave who bought his freedom, married an English woman and published a
memoir on his life as a seafarer and gentleman.

Jill Lepore's New York Burning paints a realistic portrait of a
purported slave rebellion in 1741 and the hysteria that followed, a
harrowing lesson of how abusers of power become haunted by the
nightmare of retribution.