Tag Archives: slavery

Book Review: A Fistful Of Shells

Posted on September 4, 2023 by nathanalbright

A Fistful Of Shells: West Africa From The Rise Of The Slave Trade To The Age Of Revolution, by Toby Green Writing about West Africa during the period of the slave trade, especially when one wishes, as the author does, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Other Slavery

Posted on August 29, 2023 by nathanalbright

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story Of Indian Enslavement In America, by Andres Resendez As a narrative history that describes the process by which the native inhabitants of the Americas were, even potentially up to the present day, ensnared in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Atlas Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Posted on August 27, 2023 by nathanalbright

Atlas Of The Transatlantic Slave Trade, by David Eltis and David Richardson I have to say that this book positively surprised. I expected that this book would be short on data and long on the politics of blame, and even … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Who’s Black And Why?

Posted on August 20, 2023 by nathanalbright

Who’s Black And Why?: A Hidden Chapter From The Eighteenth-Century Invention Of Race, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran What thanks do we owe to Gates and Curran for editing this immensely obscure collection of 18th century … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh

Posted on August 18, 2023 by nathanalbright

The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh: The Value Of The Enslaved, From Womb To Grave, In The Building Of A Nation, by Daina Ramey Berry If one wants to know what one is getting from this particular book, it … Continue reading →

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On The Valuation of Human Life

Posted on August 17, 2023 by nathanalbright

For nearly my entire life, the question of the value of human life has long intruded itself into my existence in odd and surprising ways. When I was a child growing up in rural Central Florida, it struck me as … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Ledger And The Chain

Posted on August 14, 2023 by nathanalbright

The Leder And The Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America, by Joshua D. Rothman There are different kinds of historical works. Some historical works are monographs that seek to study in some degree of depth a very focused set … Continue reading →

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On Being An Expert On The Slave Trade

Posted on August 12, 2023 by nathanalbright

While at dinner today, I started reading a book on the domestic slave trade of the United States, itself one of the more obscure aspects of the slave trade in antebellum America, and one of the introductory comments in the … Continue reading →

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Basics Of Biblical Justice

Posted on January 26, 2023 by nathanalbright

[Note: This is the prepared text for a Bible Study given to the Portland, Oregon congregation of the United Church of God on January 25, 2023.] There are few subjects that our contemporary age is as interested in talking about … Continue reading →

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I Acknowledge Your Suffering, Now Go Back And Suffer

Posted on September 15, 2021 by nathanalbright

I have been taking, in such limited free time as I have this month, a course from Hillsdale college on the book of Genesis that is about halfway done. Earlier today (as I write this) the third lesson of the … Continue reading →

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