Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American cam

From the University of Virginia’s very inception, slavery was deeply woven into its fabric. Enslaved people first helped to construct and then later lived in

A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leadin

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defec

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range o