In the late 18th century, when slavery was still widespread in Canada, Marie-Josèphe Angélique, an enslaved woman accused of ...

Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...

The Avenging the Ancestors Coalition will hold its 24th annual Slavery Commiseration at 6th and Market streets.

Poet and writer Clint Smith says we are taught to think of slavery as something that happened a long, long time ago. But then he learned that his grandfather's grandfather had been enslaved. “This ...

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, ...

Back in January, Florida barred its schools from piloting an Advanced Placement course in African American studies. At the time, the state’s evaluators justified this decision with reference to the ...

CU Boulder’s Henry Lovejoy updates LiberatedAfricans.org, which highlights a largely forgotten period of time in the history of African diaspora For Henry Lovejoy, an associate professor of history at ...

“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

Slavery didn’t begin in one place, with one people, or in one moment in history — it existed across every civilization on Earth. This video explores the full, often overlooked history of slavery, from ...

Some Democrats did want to expand slavery westward, while the Republican party opposed it at the time of its creation. But the division of the political parties wasn’t really the driver between who ...

In Mauritius, UNESCO supported efforts to document, preserve and share the history of slavery and indentured labour, helping ...

As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I often hear remarks like, “Slavery was totally different back then, right?” “Well, it couldn’t have been ...