A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A British heritage organisation has launched a project to tell the forgotten story of 19th century Black American abolitionists who raised their voices against racism and ...

Student poster shows the layout of the Middleburg Plantation. Using a blend of data, history, and archaeology, UC Santa Cruz undergraduates have explored what life as a slave was like on plantations ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tributes to victims of the transatlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can ...

Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...

Forced labor is a reality, and you might be using products made by workers who had no choice in the matter. The first edition of Global Slavery Index from the Walk Free Foundation, an anti-slavery NGO ...

Associate Professor of African and Atlantic History, University of Bristol For centuries, it has been held that the ideas and movement for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade came from ...

The era of Atlantic slavery began a decade after the arrival of the Spanish in the Caribbean in 1492, with the introduction of enslaved Africans into the island of Hispaniola.” Already, on page 2 of ...

A Republican candidate in Georgia has shared a clip that describes the Atlantic Slave Trade as “fake history.” Stephanie Donegan, who is running to represent Atlanta’s northern exurbs in the state ...

Two years ago, the release of a documentary in Spain set off a fiery debate in the region of Catalonia that is still simmering. The film, “Negrers: La Catalunya esclavista,” or “Slavers: Catalonia and ...

In world history, no topic is as culturally shameful, fraught, and continuously painful as slavery. Whether it's the extent of slavery among the world's oldest civilizations or the horrors of slavery ...