Slavery is an abhorrent concept, but for most of human history, it was accepted as normal. The widespread collapse of “the ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...

Grubb, Hamot, Moorhead, Kelso and Reed were prominent early Erie residents remembered today in street, business and neighborhood names. They also were enslavers, growing crops, building businesses and ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for ...

The Dutch central bank apologized for its involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 1800s on Friday, the anniversary of the Dutch abolishment of slavery. Klaas Knot, the president of De ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The descendants of a 19th-century Scottish sugar and coffee planter who owned thousands of slaves in Guyana apologized Friday for the sins of their ancestor, calling slavery ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Charles Vanthournout, Université de Lorraine (THE CONVERSATION) When Napoleon embarked ...

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