The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

It is not decent to lie, or to indulge warmongers

Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2026)

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The image of the “scourged back” remains one of the most visually arresting depictions of slavery. Based on a photograph taken in Baton Rouge in April 1863 and later published in Harper's Weekly, i...