Many believe slavery never existed in Canada - but the truth is far more complicated. This video uncovers how slavery was ...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. The new movie Amazing Grace is about the British abolitionist movement, focusing on the man who led the fight in ...

When the United Kingdom abolished slavery in 1833, the government of the day paid out £20m in compensation -- not to slaves, but to their owners. What happened next to that money has been tracked by a ...

A vivid and chilling account of the deadly voyage that triggered the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade ...

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

ASI Book Talks are collaborative events that bring together core and affiliate faculty from Africana Studies as well as undergraduate majors for a book discussion on a monthly basis during the ...

“Capitalism and Slavery,” the published form of Eric Williams’ doctoral dissertation, famously argues that the decline of the transatlantic slave trade was precipitated, not by the sudden moral ...

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 ...

Sierra Leone wasn’t created like other African countries; its backbone was slavery. Here’s how it happened: Slaves served as the primary workforce for the British on tobacco and sugar cane plantations ...