FROM THE EDITOR
Antebellum Slavery
Carl R. Weinberg
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FOREWORD
Teaching Slavery in Today's Classroom
Susan Eva O'Donovan
ARTICLES
Writing Slavery's History
Dylan Penningroth
Slavery and National Expansion in the United States
Adam Rothman
The Everyday Life of Enslaved People in the Antebellum South
Calvin Schermerhorn
Fighting Slavery on Slaveholders' Terrain
Thavolia Glymph
TEACHING RESOURCES
Teaching Antebellum Slavery from a New England Perspective
Marie Parys
Reconstructing Resistance through Fugitive Slave Ads
Gretchen Catron
WEB RESOURCES
Antebellum Slavery Online
Callinda Taylor
TEACHING WITH DOCUMENTS
Slavery, Interracial Marriage, and the Election of 1836
Tanisha C. Ford and Carl R. Weinberg
Special Online Feature: Teaching with Documents
HISTORY TODAY
The Discomfort Zone: Reenacting Slavery
at Conner Prairie
Carl R. Weinberg
ON THE COVER
Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), A Ride for Liberty--The Fugitive Slaves, c. 1862. Oil on paper board, 22 x 26 1/4 inches.
An American figure painter from Maine, Eastman Johnson was a strong supporter of the Union in the Civil War. Accompanying Union troops near Manassas, Virginia in March 1862, Johnson reported seeing an enslaved African American family of four (the woman holds an infant) fleeing for the safety of Union lines in the early morning light. For its time, this painting offered a rare and bold example of African Americans independently acting to liberate themselves from slavery. Perhaps because of its radicalism, Eastman never exhibited the painting. It is held by the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
