The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...
Philip Misevich, Daniel Domingues, David Eltis, Nafees M. Khan and Nicholas Radburn, The Conversation Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave ...
NEW YORK — Even before “Slave Play” burst onto Broadway in 2019, producers and studios were already urging Jeremy O. Harris to adapt his play into a film or a TV show. “My first thought,” the ...
Detail of The Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner. (Barney Burstein / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images) In the middle of 1856, the soon-to-be-celebrated poet Walt Whitman visited an impounded slave ship in ...
Last weekend, “60 Minutes” featured a special on the recent discovery of the sunken remains of the slave ship Clotilda. On this vessel, traders brought 110 captive Africans to Alabama in 1860 — a full ...
The badges identify the wearer's occupation, such as servant or porter. National Museum of African American History and Culture Starting in the late 17th century, enslavers in Charleston, South ...
Isaac Franklin spent part of Christmas Day 1833 assessing his company’s operations and making plans for the future. Writing from New Orleans to one of his business partners in Virginia, Franklin took ...
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At the site of one of the world’s most prolific slave ports, a museum designed to “simultaneously hold the sensations of trauma and joy” is set to open next week honoring the many thousands of ...
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We often talk about slavery as if it was a thing of the past–a horror from another era, perpetrated by people who have no resemblance to us. But the truth is that slave labor is still alive and well.
Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave vessels. Before 1820, four enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic for every European, making Africa the ...
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