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Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- The political economy of slavery in Africa -- Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 -- Slavery and the African population: a ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler “In Slavery’s Wake,” a new exhibition ...

Foreword / Suzanne Miers -- Introduction : Women's importance in African slave systems / Clair C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein -- Part I. Demographic and theoretical perspectives -- African women in ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...

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In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

“I have learned that while history can be hidden, it cannot and should not be erased,” said President Joe Biden delivers a speech at Angola’s National Museum of Slavery. Sipa USA Papillion Joe Biden, ...