Slavery Archives

Slavery

Birds to Song

From Runagate, a collection of poems that draw on archival records of chattel slavery. The book will be published this month by Duke University Press. jack (and paul) Escaped by…

The Woman-Dream I Suffered

by John Edgar Wideman,

From Slaveroad, which will be published this month by Scribner. Lucy Gantt Sheppard brings the glass teapot into a room too full of furniture to breathe. A woman not small,…

History As End

by Matthew Karp,

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

Civil Warning

by Elliot Ackerman,

Are we living through another antebellum era?

Color Theory

by Frank B. Wilderson III,

From Afropessimism, which will be published this month by Liveright. In February 2001, I attended the Race Rave conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with my wife, Alice.…