Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens ...
Every chapter invokes a name. Among them Sabina, “given” to Mercy and Shubael Taylor (in what is now Yarmouth) in the late ...
Sudhir Hazareesingh’s powerful account of enslaved resistance in the Americas places the rebels and fighters front and centre ...
The roots of American slavery precede early modern European thought and extend back to Greece and Rome.
Research led by the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice is highlighted in two museums in Rio de ...
At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...
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, ...
Slave quilts, Missouri City resident Pam Tilley will say, served many purposes. Stitching the colorful patterns offered an enjoyable time for slaves to socialize at the end of the day. And what they ...
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Northerners get much of the credit for pushing to abolish slavery in the United States. But it was an East Tennessean, four decades before the Civil War, who took the extraordinary step of publishing ...
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