Refutes the benevolence of Spanish slave law as purported by historians who relied on Frank Tannenbaum's "Slave and Citizen for the foundation of their conclusions; leniency toward slaves is held to have not been practiced, and to have been prescribed as a measure to undermine slave rebellions. (KG)

Recounts Toussaint L'Ouverture's role in leading the first successful "black revolution in the western hemisphere, and his shrewdness which saved the United States from a possible French and British invasion at the close of the eighteenth century. (KG)

A critical review of the book "Time on the Cross", by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engermann, which accuses the authors of nakedly parading racist concepts under the guise of a scientific expose of the "myth" of the horrors of American slavery for Blacks. (EH)

A brief account of the activities prior to the American Civil War of those who assisted black slaves in their flight from the South to the Northern States and Canada by an underground railroad movement. (RJ)

Describes one historian's search for information on the Underground Railroad, retracing on foot one of the routes formerly traveled by fugitives, seeking historical societies and libraries in each town, and interviewing descendants of slaves. He also had himself boxed up and smuggled onto a train to simulate the situation of one fugitive. A…

Maintains that, except from treatments of slavery as a legal condition, there was little coverage of African Americans in the first half-century of the "American Historical Review." Asserts, however, that coverage of black issues was even less in other scholarly journals. Reviews recent historiography related to African Americans. (CFR)

A review of four books that examine the historical problem of slave personality and culture. (EH)

For the children of Africans the norm remained the extended family, but the difficulty of achieving this outside of large stable plantations meant that the nuclear family was predominant in most rural areas and the mother-child unit in towns. (Author)

Concludes that when "pure" science is applied to notions of "pure" race the results are usually fictions for future generations to refute, ignore, or be oppressed. Douglass speech suggests that academe has generally reflected the same biases and the same tendencies, as the larger society. (Author/AM)

Discusses slave narratives with particular reference to historians Kenneth Stampp and Stanley Elkins. (SB)

"The Last Supper" deals with slavery and social stratification in late eighteenth century Cuba. In this article, the film is described in artistic and historical terms, and is discussed in relation to the larger body of theory on Latin American slavery. (EB)

This article analyzes William Lloyd Garrison as a moral extremist in his antislavery movement. Unlike other historians, the author presents Garrison as a man who understood what he was doing, giving insight into the purposes and tactics of the radical abolitionist movement. (Author/JR)

An historical analysis of the life of Phillis Wheatley, a black woman slave who wrote poetry during the Revolutionary period, interpreted from the perspective of her relationship to other black people of her time and the meaning of her life for black people today. (EH)