In this interview, Professor Bronwen Everill discusses a wide range of topics relating to capitalism and slavery, from abolitionist boycotts to consumer culture.

Professor Caitlin Rosenthal discusses the development of business practices on slave plantations and the relationship between plantation management, violence, and innovation.

In episode three, Alexis Hoag, Practitioner in Residence at Columbia Law School’s Holder Initiative, discusses the systemic racial issues at the heart of our Judicial system. Professor Hoag recently published, “Valuing Black Lives: A Case for Ending the Death Penalty” and argued before the Ohio Supreme Court advocating for Glen Bates.

In our second episode we talk to Todd M. Michney, Assistant Professor at the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Institute of Technology, who shares insights from his book Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900–1980 about redlining and the HOLC’s role in housing discrimination. Read more about the New Deal and […]

In our first episode, John interviews David Waldstreicher, a professor of history at The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.  He is the author of Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009) and Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution (2004). Professor Waldstreicher discusses his book Slavery’s Constitution, which focuses on the slavery […]