HASTAC Commons | James R. Burns | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/jamesrobertburns/activity/ Activity feed for James R. Burns. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:39:29 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8fb26f4dfb5ddb1732ef7e224b8f7bc7 James R. Burns's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1929534/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:51:42 +0000 0 e4242b2f22677313da6210369370a5d0 James R. Burns's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1929399/ Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:19:27 +0000 0 eec9d4dae69708feed31c7030b71331c James R. Burns created the site Domestic Slavery and Sexual Exploitation in the Households of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, from Constantine to c. AD 900 / AH 287 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1927326/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:49:05 +0000 0 7a7844ec44dfa744f4b74e9ca18410c5 James R. Burns's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1927322/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:25:05 +0000 0 00f656f7e17ba797378fbec28b64db67 James R. Burns's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1910160/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:13:10 +0000 0 e44b4022e6e9656a8c21149ca61a7eec James R. Burns's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1907288/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:04:29 +0000 0 0ab7389a9995b0d029cb69354e48ba25 James Robert Burns replied to the topic Group picture suggestions welcome in the discussion History of Slavery and Unfreedom https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom/forum/topic/group-picture-suggestions-welcome/?view=all#post-85366 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 09:20:06 +0000

The current picture is of Aesop, the famous Greek storyteller and slave. The cover photo is of Harriet Tubman. These two choices reflect the group’s scope of slavery throughout history. But feel free to suggest alternatives.

]]> 0 8e66d51a609437f913892778b9f6501c James Robert Burns started the topic New Group: History of Slavery and Unfreedom in the discussion Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/groups/early-medieval/forum/topic/new-group-history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom-3/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:07:02 +0000 Welcome to the ‘History of Slavery and Unfreedom’

So far as I am aware, this is the first and only Humanities Commons group dedicated to the study of slavery.*

The past decade has seen a large number of publications that address slavery in a range of historical societies (e.g., The Cambridge World History; The Palgrave Handbook; On Human…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f1143779709ca076552f06cc8a7da8d James Robert Burns started the topic New Group: History of Slavery and Unfreedom in the discussion Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/groups/ancient-greece-rome/forum/topic/new-group-history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom-2/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:07:01 +0000 Welcome to the ‘History of Slavery and Unfreedom’

So far as I am aware, this is the first and only Humanities Commons group dedicated to the study of slavery.*

The past decade has seen a large number of publications that address slavery in a range of historical societies (e.g., The Cambridge World History; The Palgrave Handbook; On Human…[Read more]

]]> 0 df69049839193a0fb25c201b1d278d86 James Robert Burns started the topic New Group: History of Slavery and Unfreedom in the discussion History of Slavery and Unfreedom https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom/forum/topic/new-group-history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:06:58 +0000 Welcome to the ‘History of Slavery and Unfreedom’

So far as I am aware, this is the first and only Humanities Commons group dedicated to the study of slavery.*

The past decade has seen a large number of publications that address slavery in a range of historical societies (e.g., The Cambridge World History; The Palgrave Handbook; On Human…[Read more]

]]> 0 28f35822425c1045f9ac3714319dc492 James Robert Burns started the topic Group picture suggestions welcome in the discussion History of Slavery and Unfreedom https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom/forum/topic/group-picture-suggestions-welcome/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:03:51 +0000 I welcome suggestions for a profile and cover picture for this group. Please post your suggestions below.

]]> 0 6e817e645357741d1af8e877691fe03b James R. Burns created the group History of Slavery and Unfreedom https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887805/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:01:09 +0000 0 ca27576d367e611dc269e285c1222c83 James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? in the group Medieval Mediterranean https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887768/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:00:46 +0000 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c4fb303c4d92dbd8f52ca9e68a5460f James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887767/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:00:43 +0000 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[Read more]

]]> 0 1708fd67f133506905bc78ac6a0ee7ab James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887766/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:00:19 +0000 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d90041d3e811fc90c049a1413f62cf5 James R. Burns's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887747/ Fri, 31 May 2024 21:58:50 +0000 0 1a517aaec21e9e7d90aebc90b43bffe1 James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887710/ Fri, 31 May 2024 15:22:52 +0000 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[Read more]

]]> 0 e71d9a406819452043e92977ffe4043e James R. Burns's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887466/ Wed, 29 May 2024 10:13:53 +0000 0 7f33d2132c04d6f0392580aab34b1407 James R. Burns changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887465/ Wed, 29 May 2024 06:08:07 +0000 0