This year marks the shameful anniversary of chattel slavery – or the owning of human beings as property able to be bought, sold, given and inherited – in what we now call the United States. Four ...

This is an opinion column. Henry Highland Garnet. I’d never heard of him, either. I discovered his intriguing journey of escape from enslavement, survival, and faith while doing research for the 100th ...

A 1789 book sparked abolitionist sentiment by describing the brutality of the slave trade. But today the story tells us so much more than that. There is a painting in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum ...

This article was adapted from an interview conducted with the author by UN News on 2 April 2023. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans was a global phenomenon. Beyond its obvious and profound ...

Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships, Jamaica’s ‘second chance’ Fifa World Cup qualifying campaign, post-Hurricane Melissa recovery, the just-concluded Budget Debate, and much else, means its easy ...

EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Easthampton City leaders invited the public to attend a special learning opportunity focused on Slavery and Emancipation in the Connecticut River Valley. Springfield ...

Caribbean debacle -- Good intentions -- The trafficker and his network -- The pull of silver -- The Spanish campaign -- The greatest insurrection against the other slavery -- Powerful nomads -- ...

Harvard Divinity School hosted a discussion on the presence of enslavement and enslaved people in early Christian stories at a virtual forum Monday night. The event — the first in the series of public ...

Massachusetts Bay Colony was the first in New England to permit the enslavement of kidnapped Africans in the 1600s. Four centuries later, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Reparations Task Force ...

Weiss and Martin will also study the era’s galleys, ships propelled by rowers built by the French (and their servile labor), as artistic productions in their own right—a subject relatively unexplored ...

China's coercing of Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities into forced labor in agriculture and manufacturing in Xinjiang could amount to "enslavement as a crime against humanity," an independent UN ...

The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans was a global phenomenon. Beyond its obvious and profound impact on the peoples and countries of Africa, the trade in enslaved Africans also affected the ...