Robert Calvin Rivers

What leg of the journey are you on?

The Middle Passage: A slave's journey to America Olaudah Equiano's harrowing first-person account of being captured in Africa, transported across the Atlantic in horrific conditions aboard a slave ship, and sold into slavery in colonial America. This powerful testimony reveals the brutal reality of the transatlantic slave trade that fueled the col...

How slavery was rationalized Every writer of history wants to craft a work that sticks to the ribs of the reader, and no meal does that better than one made from sacred cows. That’s what John Samuel Harpham aims to do in The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery. Using an array of texts, ranging from traveler accounts and ...