The First Africans in Virginia Landed in 1619. It Was a Turning Point for Slavery in American History—But Not the Beginning

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia ...
Washington Examiner

How slavery was rationalized

For Harpham’s explanation of how England came to view the enslavement of others as both a violation of nature and a legitimate institution, all roads ultimately lead back to Rome, and Roman law in ...
The Irish Times

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: A book deserving of wide readership

David Brion Davis, America’s great historian of the ideologies that supported slavery and those who intervened to dismantle the institution, died in 2019, the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the ...