Slavery and Its Legacies

Slavery and Its Legacies episodes:

• 02.28.2019

  Ep. 70 – White Women and Slavery

  A look at the true role white women played in slavery and the effects that are still being felt today. Subscribe:Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Soundcloud

  
• 12.04.2017

  Connor Williams on Voices from the Archive

  Connor Williams joins Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss the creation of “Voices from the Archive,” an online teaching resource based on documents gathered from the U. B. Phillips Papers in Sterling Memorial Library’s Manuscripts and Archives collection.

  
• 11.10.2017

  Erik Mathisen on American Diplomacy during the era of Reconstruction

  Erik Mathisen joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss American foreign relations during the Reconstruction era and how a generation of former Union soldiers saw slavery, free labor, capitalism, and emancipation around the world...

  
• 10.19.2017

  Jonathan Schroeder on Mapping North American Slave Narratives

  Jonathan Schroeder, a recent Postdoctoral Associate at Yale’s Digital Humanities Lab, discusses his post-doctoral research project “Passages to Freedom: Mapping the North American Slave Narratives. “Passages to Freedom” examines the language and mobility of 294 African-American slave narratives.

  
• 10.06.2017

  Brad Proctor on Political Violence during Reconstruction

  Brad Proctor joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss the Ku Klux Klan and Political Violence during Reconstruction.

  
• 09.15.2017

  Nicholas Wood on the Pre-Garrisonian Abolitionist Movement

  Nicholas Wood joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss his book-in-progress, “Before Garrison: Antislavery & Politics in the New Nation.”

  
• 09.08.2017

  Joshua Lynn on Party Realignment as Racial Realignment in the Civil War Era

  In this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies, Joshua Lynn joins Thomas Thurston to discuss the antebellum Democratic Party’s effort to transform itself into a party dedicated to “preserving the white man’s republic.”

  
• 08.29.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Samantha Seeley on Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain in the Early American Republic

  Samantha Seeley joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her book-in-progress, “Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain in the Early American Republic.”

  
• 08.14.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies: Manuel Barcia on piracy, the slave trade, and the trial of the Panda

  Professor Manuel Barcia joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss an episode covered in his current book project: The Pirates, the Judge, and the Amistad Trial: Or How the Panda Slavers May Have Determined...

  
• 07.31.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Tammy Ingram on the Wickedest City in America

  Dr. Tammy Ingram joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavey and Its Legacies as they discuss Dr. Ingram’s upcoming book project titled The Wickedest City in America: Sex, Race, and Organized Crime in the Jim Crow South.

  
• 07.17.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Abigail Cooper on the Movements of Black Refugees in the Civil War Era

  Thomas Thurston spoke with Abigail Cooper, an Assistant Professor in History at Brandeis University and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, about her work examining Civil War refugee or contraband camps across the South. Her talk traces the...

  
• 06.16.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Wendy S. Hesford on “Enslaved Girlhoods: Gendering Terror, Human Trafficking, and Human Security”

  In this episode, GLC Modern Slavery Fellow, Wendy S. Hesford discusses a chapter titled “Enslaved Girlhoods: Gendering Terror, Human Trafficking, and Human Security” from her book-in-progress. Hesford discusses the confluence of the discourses on sex slavery, human trafficking, and terrorism...

  
• 06.02.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Wendell Adjetey on Draft Resisters, the Cold War Underground Railroad and the Enduring Myth of Canada

  In this episode Yale PhD candidate Wendell Adjetey discusses how US draft resisters in the 1960s and 1970s, especially African Americans, employed the myth of Canada as the Promised Land and the rhetorical use of the Underground Railroad.

  
• 05.19.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Angela Alonso on the Brazilian Abolitionist Movement

  In this episode Angela Alonso, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, argues that the campaign for the abolition of slavery was the first national social movement and that its success relied on the building...

  
• 05.05.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Alejandro E. Gomez on Antislavery Sentiments in the Spanish Atlantic

  In this episode Marcela Echeverri, an Assistant Professor of History at Yale University, spoke with Alejandro E. Gomez, Maitre de conferences of Latin American History at the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and a fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, about...

  
• 04.21.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – James Scott – A Deep History of the Earliest States Part 2

  In part 2 of this 2 part episode we join James Scott as he presents some of the main arguments in his upcoming book Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. This presentation was recorded at Yale...

  
• 04.21.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – James Scott – A Deep History of the Earliest States Part 1

  In part 1 of this 2 part episode we join James Scott as he presents some of the main arguments in his upcoming book Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. This presentation was recorded at Yale...

  
• 04.07.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Garnette Cadogan

  In this episode Garnette Cadogan, editor-at-large for Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, reads his essay “Walking While Black”, originally published in Freeman’s, a literary magazine.

  
• 03.24.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Jim Walvin

  In this episode James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of York, discusses how traces of slavery are often overlooked in the material culture we value, from porcelain sugar bowls to mahogany tables.

  
• 03.10.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Christienna Fryar

  In this episode Thomas Thurston spoke with Christienna Fryar, an Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Buffalo State and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, on post-emancipation Jamaica, an era that scholars of British imperial history have defined...

  
• 02.27.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Isela Gutierrez

  In this episode Thomas Thurston spoke with Isela Gutierrez, the Associate Research Director for Democracy North Carolina and a speaker on the Gilder Lehrman Center’s “Right to Vote” panel discussion, about her organization’s work to protect the citizens of North...

  
• 02.10.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Elena Shih

  In this episode Thomas Thurston speaks with Elena Shih, an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, about her work on human trafficking rescue efforts and the...

  
• 02.06.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Bryan Stevenson

  In this episode David Blight speaks with Bryan Stevenson, the founding director of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Mr. Stevenson was here at Yale University to give the annual...

  
• 01.30.2017

  Slavery and Its Legacies – Mathias Rodorff

  In this episode Thomas Thurston spoke with Mathias Rodorff, a PhD candidate at the University of Munich and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, about his current work, which investigates why Nova Scotian newspapers paid such close attention...