Arts & Humanities 26 Years a Slave: Juan Miranda’s Fight for Freedom in Colonial New York Who was Juan Miranda? In this incredible story, meet the first enslaved man to sue his enslaver in the colony’s Supreme Court for his right to be free.
Arts & Humanities Elite Slavery and Professional Football: An Interview With Alexander Rothenberg What do slave traders and football agents have in common? Alexander Rothenberg’s new book examines the production and use of elite bodies, connecting historical practices of slavery to the working conditions of ‘wonderkids’ in contemporary sports and entertainment.
Arts & Humanities Slavery and the Black Presence in Spanish Golden-Age Literature So far, scholars have had surprisingly little to say about Zaide, a black character that appears in the famous novel Lazarillo de Tormes. So how does the figure of a black slave fit into a canonical work of Spanish Golden-Age letters?