1. Elisabeth (Lisette) Denison Forth

    Detroit's dark secret: Slavery

    U-M historian chronicles a time in Detroit’s history when Native Americans and African Americans were considered property.

  2. The British navy intercepted slave ships throughout the 19th century. In 1884, the H.M.S. 'Undine' liberated this group of captives taken from an Arab dhow. The British navy intercepted slave ships throughout the late 19th century in Northeast Africa.

    Freedom writer

    In the midst of the civil rights movement, U-M historian Dwight Lowell Dumond published his anti-slavery masterwork. The backlash was ferocious.

  3. Supreme Court building, stock, public domain

    The right side of history

    Cultural historian Neal Gabler, AB ’71/AM ’75, puts the question to U-M scholars: Can history itself take sides in our political and cultural disputes?

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