As part of Black History Month in October the history department at the University of Reading will be presenting research on the historical Black experience, looking in particular at the…Read More >
Slavery
An enslaved woman and her children: a story of maternity, infancy, and death in Northern Brazil in the era of Abolition
Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of History at the University of Reading and Professor of History at the University of São Paulo,…Read More >
Fragments in the archive: stories of slavery, sexual violence and testimony
Enslaved women make only fleeting appearances in the historical records from colonial and antebellum America – as property rather than people. But after the Civil War, there was an outpouring…Read More >