Did Jesus approve of slavery, and of the whipping of a slaver’s chattel? Edwin Epps believes so. He quotes Luke 12:47: “And that servant … shall be beaten with many stripes.” By “many stripes,” the ...

In what might be one of the most unlikely scenarios in modern theater, a Jewish plantation owner returns to his ravaged property after the Civil War ends, only to sit down for a Passover seder with ...

Since this is Black History Month, consider the case of Thomas Thistlewood who died in 1786, notorious among Jamaicans, for his 14,000-page diary, documenting his time as a plantation owner. He ...