Roots of Modern Day Slavery
This panel is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s 14th Annual International Conference.
Historians discuss 18th and 19th Century analogs and their relationships to contemporary slavery and abolition, as well as “white slavery” and… read more
Historians discuss 18th and 19th Century analogs and their relationships to contemporary slavery and abolition, as well as “white slavery” and the emphasis on human rights in the 20th Century.
This panel is part of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s 14th Annual International Conference. close
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David W. Blight Director Yale University->Gilder Lehrman Ctr. for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
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