Eric Williams

This historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history.

Reflecting on "Capitalism and Slavery" (1944), a work that continues to influence scholarship today.

The paradoxes of C.L.R. James.

Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its climax in the Age of Revolution.

About 1.5 million Africans were carried across the Atlantic in Liverpool ships, but the city's slave trade was barely acknowledged until recently.

"The Reckoning," Robin Blackburn’s monumental history, offers a dizzying account of the politics behind slavery's rise and fall.

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

The 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery. It ended up helping to distort the real history of slavery and the struggle against it.

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

The history of the United States as the history of capitalism.

Board games invite discussions of counterfactuality and contingency, resisting the teleology and determinism that are so common to looking backward in time.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

The history of the Atlantic slave trade after the American Revolution is a story of sustained efforts to suppress it even as demand for slaves increased.

It’s a history lesson worth remembering: The exploitation of immigrant workers only encourages more—and worse—abuse.

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.