Slavery and Its Legacies The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

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

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.

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 through the prism of their wartime experiences.

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.

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

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."