American History

Slavery in these United States

Slavery: An Overview of the Peculiar Institution in these United States

Undated engraving depicts the first trading of enslaved Africans at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. (Photo: New York Public Library)

“For many readers of this journal,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Carl N. Degler, the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University, “the extensive and lengthy historical examination of slavery over…