Episodes
Published 01/25/21
Thomas Thurston talks with Gretchen Head on her project titled “Ni Esclave, Ni Nègre: Arabic’s Contested Borders”
Published 04/24/20
Thomas Thurston talks with Karin Zipf on her chapter titled "A Climate of Fear" from her upcoming book Field Ghosts: How the American Farmworker Fought Migrant Slavery.
Published 04/16/20
Thomas Thurston talks with Nicholas Crawford on his work titled "Sustaining Slavery: Plantation Provisioning and the Politics of Health in the British Caribbean".
Published 02/28/20
Thomas Thurston talks with Isadora Moura Mota on her work titled "Afro-Brazilian Atlantic: Slavery and Anglo-American Abolitionism in the Age of Emancipation".
Published 02/10/20
Thomas Thurston talks with Nicole Schneider on her work titled “Reflecting the past: the Mediation of History in Contemporary Protest Photography”.
Published 01/17/20
Thomas Thurston talks with Urvashi Chakravarty on her work titled “Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England.
Published 01/10/20
Thomas Thurston talks with Joseph Opala on his work with the Black Seminoles
Published 11/12/19
Thomas Thurston talks with Henrique Espada Lima on his project "History of a Different Future: the end of slavery and slave's expectations of rights in Brazil"
Published 10/25/19
Anita Rupprecht joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her project , “‘Liberated Africans’, Indenture and Resistance in the British Caribbean 1807-1828”
Published 09/18/19
Amanda Bellows joins Thomas Thurston in the studio to discuss how emancipated serfs were viewed in Russian music, literature, art and popular culture during the late nineteenth century.
Published 05/06/19
Dr. Joe Yannielli joins Thomas Thurston in the studio to talk about the Mendi Mission, established by radical abolitionists in the wake of the Amistad rebellion, which occupied territory in what is now southern Sierra Leone between 1842 and 1882.
Published 03/26/19
Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray talks with Thomas Thurston about her work tracing the travels of Frederick Douglass, Henry Box Brown and other African American abolitionists in Britain between the 1830s and 1890s.
Published 03/18/19
Sasha Turner, Associate Professor, History, Quinnipiac University join Thomas Thurston in the studio to talk about her work on Slavery, Emotions, and Gendered Power.
Published 11/14/18
Thomas Thurston is joined in conversation with Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum and Gunther Peck as they discuss the connections between labor and human trafficking.
Published 10/25/18
Thomas Thurston talks with Yale Modern Slavery Working Group members Janie Chuang and Joel Quirk on the impacts of terminology in the anti-trafficking and abolition movements of today.
Published 10/12/18
Grace Peña Delgado and David Blight join host Thomas Thurston to discuss Borders, Modern Slavery, and the Modern Slavery Working Group.
Published 10/01/18
Elena Shih and Andrew Crane join Thomas Thurston to discuss critiques and observations on contemporary solutions to human trafficking.
Published 09/20/18
Jen Manion joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her on the Fugitive Slave act and the rise of anti cross-dressing laws.
Published 07/02/18
Amelia Hintzen joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her book manuscript, "Sugarcane Citizenship: A History of Migration and Statelessness in the Dominican Republic" which explores Haitian migration to Dominican sugar plantations during the twentieth century, and the development of a large stateless population of Haitian descent.
Published 06/06/18