Expanding the Slaveocracy
Historians Eric Foner and Matt Karp on the international ambitions of the US slaveholding class — and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.
2 Articles by: Eric Foner
Eric Foner is a professor of history at Columbia University and the author, most recently, of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.
Struggle and Progress
Eric Foner on the abolitionists, Reconstruction, and winning “freedom” from the Right.